I have done all the bone broth tricks – long simmering, apple cider vinegar, crock pot, stock pot, beef bones, chicken bones, vegetables, no vegetables. This one’s new, to me at least. I can tell you up front that it involves an overnight sit and gave us some very gelatinous broth. I was perusing an…
Right around the same time we added Kitty to the homestead, a new friend came to live. I never thought I’d utter these words but we got a cat and I’m okay with it. If you know me in real life, you know my distaste for the feline species runs deep. But I like vegetables more…
One of my absolute favorite fermented beverages is water kefir. It’s delicious, but more than that it makes me feel really good. I’ve been known to kick an afternoon caffeine inhabit by imbibing this beverage rich in beneficial bacteria and yeasts. There are two main ingredients in water kefir – water and sugar. For optimal performance of…
I pulled ten eggs from the chicken coop last night. That plus the okra picked from plants as tall as me and the morning and the evening milking made up the day’s harvest. A dozen eggs have eluded us for quite some time now; high summer being our flock’s off season. Walking to the coop with…
