While Sarah has her hands full in her new social work position, I’ve settled into a nice little groove here at home. Here’s a short – and very long overdue – report. Garden We’re having...
http://www.overallgardener.com/late-julyearly-august-2016-a-long-overdue-report/
As I write this, five jars of red and white wine vinegar and their vinegar mothers sit in jars in the kitchen, working away. I grew all of the vinegar mothers from scratch last summer, experiment...
After almost four months of waiting, the New Year’s Eve half-gallon sauerkraut batch results are in. Drumroll, please…. Kelly proclaims the sauerkraut, ‘perfect,’ ‘fabulous,’ and ‘j...
We finally chopped up two batches of sauerkraut on New Year’s Eve. They’ve been sitting on the counter ever since, bubbling away and looking tasty. In the end, we modified a recipe from a rec...
Happy New Year to you and your garden/farm/homestead/piece of earth! It was a wonderful year for us in many ways, and we continue to believe that growing food really matters. We are grateful and...
http://www.overallgardener.com/december-harvest-and-2014-farm-stats/
The homemade vinegar experiments have been sitting undisturbed in the darkest room in the house for almost three months. This is partly because it takes a while to make vinegar and partly (mostly...
I’m making vinegar from scratch. I hear it’ll be delicious—the best vinegar I’ve ever tasted. But honestly, I don’t really know what I’m doing, and no one else seems to either. It’s...
http://www.overallgardener.com/homemade-vinegar-from-scratch-and-from-vinegar-mothers/
What’s not to love? The feathery leaves and carrot-y green smell make me weak in the knees, but I’ve never actually cooked with carrot greens. That all changed yesterday, when I harvested 11....
http://www.overallgardener.com/carrot-greens-an-edible-love-story/
If only orange season lasted longer. The tree is bare, save for a last few remaining oranges. We feasted on orange juice for the first half of March and sipped sparingly in the second half. Sp...
When we began harvesting navel oranges in earnest last month, I canned orange marmalade for the first time. The recipe is from our third edition copy of Stocking Up (1986), by Carol Hupping and t...
http://www.overallgardener.com/homemade-honey-orange-marmalade/