Could it really be this easy? Seems so. After eating jars of sauerkraut in a single sitting, it’s time to start making my own. I just figured it was a huge undertaking but it seems you just chop your cabbage, add pickling salt, massage it all together and leave it on the counter for a […]
How to: Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds
Saving your own tomato seeds is rather fun and has all sorts of benefits. Preserving heirloom seeds, ensuring a supply of your own favourites for next year, helping protect seed diversity, making a giant mess of stinky fermenting goo, it’s all there! It’s also pretty easy. As part of our seed selling business we save […]
Scrappy Apple Cider Vinegar from Scratch
Back in the fall when we were pressing cider we also starting another fermenting project and it might be my favourite project yet. When you press 8 bushels of apples you are left with a ton of pulp. While we composted about half of it we decided to turn the rest into apple cider vinegar. […]