As we continue our transition to off-grid living I am constantly thinking of ways to live without electricity in the kitchen. Right now I have no idea what a challenge this will be, but I am trying to move towards more sustainable food preparation methods.
I am sharing some of my favorite electricity-free kitchen appliances over at the Plan to Eat blog. Head on over to find out what they are and to share any that I missed that you find useful.
We finally finished processing our latest batch of forty meat birds a few weeks ago.I am always so thankful to have homegrown meat when we’ve gone without for a period of months. I think we ran out of our last steer towards the beginning of 2019 and our last round of canned and frozen meat…
It isn’t the big, flashy foods that feed a growing family through the flux of the everyday. It is those staple foods left on the back burner (no pun intended) that give calories and nourishment – raw and roasted vegetables, sourdough bread, raw milk, plenty of chicken soup, eggs, soured porridge, kefir, kraut, lots of…
We started these seeds a few weeks ago thinking that by now they would have made it into the gardens. But there’s not enough water to warrant a planting. The ponds are starting to go dry. The house hole is dry. The gardens are dry. Last week we mixed that wood ash into the spot…
It’s that time of year again – when summer squash is either plentiful in the garden or your neighbors are bringing it over in abundance. Either way, it can be hard to come up with ways to use it all up beyond just shredding it for zucchini bread. So I did a little brainstorming over…
About a month ago Stewart wrapped up his design work on the latest free eBook from Cultures for Health. This time around it was the Cheesemaking book and besides drawing up an outline, I had little to do with it. You see, I’ve only ever really ventured into cheesemaking once. It was a shocking success,…
When I first got to college I had one of two majors in mind – chemistry or chemical engineering. (Why I picked those majors, in particular, is a whole other why-I’m-not-so-smart story.) I arrived on campus in the fall of 2001 with big, successful, break away, American dreams. After the tearful good-byes and the settling…
