They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
While our sauerkraut may have royally failed, we have been having better success with rutabaga, beet and parsnips. We put them in canning jars with 3-4% brine, and set them first on the kitchen table, and then, when the sunlight was too bright there, on top of the piano. The beets were quite delicious, sweet… Continue reading More Lacto-fermentation experiments
This is what an epic Sauerkraut fail looks like. Smelled pretty bad, too. You can see the bubbles forming in the biofilm on top of the liquid. Oddly enough... The kraut underneath neither looked nor smelled bad once the brine was drained off. It is possible the mold was only on the surface of the… Continue reading Sauerkraut… Fail!
Before the latest cold struck we were planning on hosting Lord's Day dinner last Saturday. So we went to our garden and harvested some winter veggies. Winter beets. We put these in back on 8/21, but they didn't really amount to much. They sprouted, but only three were bigger than my finger. We'll leave the… Continue reading Winter Roots
Little Farm in the Big City 