As with most modern things, what you see is rarely what you get. Here is a snippet from a recent Diverse Health Services blog post worth reading: “In the early twentieth century, investigators began discovering that certain noncaloric elements in food, or vitamins, are required for the proper functioning of the body. Chemists, following the reductionist…
I’ve spent much of the past week with jars, two canners, and a whole lot of bovine. A week ago we picked up the first three boxes that make up the butchering of a bull. That Wednesday I got a great deal of help from the ladies in our community and we put up 105…
I tend to paralyze easily when something seems like a large undertaking. Before I gave it a try, cheesemaking was like this for me. Now we have a couple of simple goat milk cheeses I make and it seems crazy how easy that is. This also happened to me last week when Annie and I decided to clean…
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…
