Sometime last year I came upon several boxes of bagged dried beans. These were fairly old and, after trying a few pounds, I found them quite tough even after a long simmering. At this same time I happened to have a neighbor coming over to help out with household chores (ahem, dishes) while I was…
Our kitchen table is often overflowing with dishes after a meal or kombucha making supplies or sourdough bread pans and dusty piles of flour. This table is where we gather for nourishment of all kinds and store piles of groceries after the weekly trip to town and do all sorts of making when the counters…
Sometimes people ask us what it looks like to live off-grid. Like many words, it has different meanings depending on who you talk to. Our version of off-grid infrastructure has had many iterations in the five years we’ve lived here and where we are at currently is probably the most workable it has ever been….
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…
