Kombucha
The cranberry kombucha is all gone. It was lovely, but it tasted so unlike tea that I tended to foget there was caffeine in it. I think next time I will not use black tea for this.
Meanwhile, I have a new 3-quart batch of rose hips kombucha that’s looking close to ready!
Below the cut, Weinkraut [...]
New Fermentings
January 4th, 2009 · No Comments
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Garden: Not a Total Loss
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Some of you, my dear readers, may have wondered what ever happened to my garden. The short answer is I stopped paying it much attention after the first week of July, when I started caring about the bar.
I had assumed it was a total loss. When I moved to Massachusetts I showed the plot to [...]
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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
The garden is coming along quite nicely now. I visited today, did some digging, and mulched around the brussels sprouts. Three cubic feet of mulch didn’t go nearly as far as I thought they would, and I gestimate it would take about ten bags to mulch the whole garden. Probably cheaper to plant chives, clover, [...]
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I can has garden!
April 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Yesterday I took possession of a Cornell garden plot out at Plantations, just south of the Dyce bee labs. I got some Brussels Sprout seedlings from Home Depot and put them straight in the ground, and staked out my plot with dead limbs from the forest that other gardeners have used in the past (I [...]
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Pollan’s Letter to Whole Foods
April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Michael Pollan has posted a letter to whole foods at his blog, responding to the whole foods CEO’s criticism of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I’ll give you the punch line here, but you really ought to read the whole letter–explaining Pollan’s conclusion:
After spending time with you and reading your letter, I’ve wondered if perhaps I did, [...]
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