fermentation
Pear Vinegar Recipe – made with fruit scraps
Last year I came into an abundance of pears from a dear friend with a few grand trees at the edge of her yard. Among...
Lacto-Fermented Garlic Recipe
If you ever find yourself with a spare clove or two of garlic, consider trying a super-simple method of preserving it by fermenting it in a...
Things I Love: October, Crafting, Garlic, and Bonfire
Eric and I build a small bonfire outside at least once a week. We sit around it and talk, share stories, play our banjo and...
Fermented Foods Workshop
A few weeks ago, I was the facilitator for a fermented foods workshop at a private festival in beautiful Eastern Tennessee! The Harvest Celebration focused...
Kudzu Flower & Muscadine Wine
I went foraging in downtown Asheville, right smack dab in the middle of the city. Normally, urban foraging isn't my favorite way to gather edible...
It’s Alive! A video of happy beer fermentation
Beer fermentation is magic! So, I've noticed that when people first start brewing beer on their own, they get concerned about whether they are doing...
Recipe Box: One Gallon of Mint Wine
Mint, mint, mint. Once you get a good patch of mint planted, you should quickly have more mint than you can ever figure out how...
Wild Fermented Dandelion Ginger Wine
It is a beautiful spring, but I'm singing the blues. I'm down to my last bottle of dandelion wine from last year, and now I...
I made Blackberry Fizz!
MOST of them are labeled! I was just tidying my apothecary, and while doing so, I re-discovered an experiment that I'd...
Recipe Box: Lacto-fermented Watermelon Radish & Citrus Pickle
The fermenting bug got me again! It starts when I realize that I have a wide-mouthed jar that isn't being put to use, and...
Apple Daikon Radish Sauerkraut Recipe
Sauerkraut. The very word used to make my nose wrinkle and my jaw clamp shut, lips sealed, and my little curly head shake an adamant...
Small Batch Lacto-Fermentation is easy!
I experimented on my own before I learned the best practices of lacto-fermentation, and while my first batch of sauerkraut worked out well, a few...
Lacto-fermented Cranberry Apple Butternut Relish
Cranberries are delicious - their tart, sometimes bitter flavor can enhance most any meal, and they blend so well with both cinnamon and something sweet....
Fermentation on Wheels!
Fermentation on Wheels Are they coming to your neighborhood? They'll be in mine, soon! What is Fermentation on Wheels? Fermentation on...
A Poltergeist in my Booze Cabinet!
just a portion of the selection... I just don't know what happened, y'all... One minute, the booze cabinet was all happy...