Farmers markets move online It isn’t always easy finding fresh, high-quality food in this country. Supermarkets with their long, complex supply chains usually offer unripe or subpar produce that leaves a lot to be desired. But the usual alternative methods of provision have distinct limitations. Luckily, technology provides one great answer to this dilemma, opening up an important new avenue for small-scale producers to connect to customers. Only local farms can deliver the very freshest produce. CSAs require a large up-front cash layout and lock you into eating whatever happens to be delivered. For quality-minded consumers who would like to support local agriculture, it can be a struggle to obtain the freshest food on a consistent basis. But as I discovered in researching my new book on good news in sustainable food, small producers have one magical ace up their sleeve, a tool that could provide a far greater advantage to locally oriented growers than to big nationally focused ones: the Internet.
High Altitude Living In WA & CO Resources - The Happy Homesteader Blog Bruce and Carol McElmurray live in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado at an elevation of 9,750'. Ed and Laurie Essex live off grid in the Okanogan Highlands of Washington State at an elevation of 4200’. Bruce and Ed, bloggers for The Happy Homesteader at Mother Earth News, have decided to collaborate on a blog about their high-altitude living. What natural resources do you have on your property and how do you utilize them? Ed Essex: We use the sun for solar power. We also use the sun for passive heat in our home in the winter and to keep our insulated cold frames warm enough to grow fresh veggies in the winter without any other source of heat. We use the existing groundwater for our drinking water. We use the rainwater to fill our cisterns. We use the two cisterns at the house to water the garden and the one at the barn to water our two horses. We use regular gutters to capture the water off of the roof. We use our timber to heat our home and cook with.
Fat of the Land Brazilian coffee cocktail | 1bigbite Lately I am a magnet for minor and intermediate disasters, actually I always had been but things are escalating. Sometimes I believe bad things just happen to me but at the end it is how it is, this is me and I should come with a warning. Just a list of last days debacles: I broke three glasses, of cause the expensive ones and every day one because it’s so much fun to clean the floor. If I look on my left hand, I can see two cuts slowly healing, still love sharp knifes. These pee-wee accidents are bad, but after all I wish they would triple if it would make the next catastrophe never happen. And now the worst thing, you might already guessed… A wave of coffee made it into my notebook through the usb ports and the screen went black immediately. Brazilian coffee cocktail serves 2-3 120 ml / 1/2 cup chilled espresso 60 ml / 1/4 cup rum or cachaca 60 ml / 1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk ice cubes Combine everything in a shaker or ball jar, add ice cubes and shake well.
WellPreserved.ca - Make Something. Share It. 4. Poo - The Chicken Keeper's Guide - The Poultry Pages - Allotment and Vegetable Gardening Below are pictures of Chicken Droppings kindly donated by our members (the pictures not the poo). Normal Picture taken by Catsmuvva These last three pictures have shed intestinal lining in them - quite normal, not a cause for concern. Coral coloured Urates These are frequently deposited overnight and are quite normal Oily and Foamy The range of "Normal" is huge :shock: Ceacal These are produced from the caecum of the chicken and are mustard to dark brown froth. Fly Maggots (picture curtesy of Vember) Flies will lay their eggs on moist chicken poo and in warm weather they will very quickly hatch into small maggots. Watery Watery droppings can be produced by hens which are too hot. Abnormal poos Coccidiosis produces blood in faeces. Above is from a chicken suffering with Clostridium perfringens.see: The hen who produced this specimen was about 25 weeks old. Worms picture taken by smiler43 picture taken by Lindeggs Broody Poo Thanks to ANHBUC for this picture
Homestead Revival NorCal Cazadora Tiramisu ice cream tiramisu ice cream This is one of my recipes published in the February edition of Oprah magazine as part of the main food feature on ice cream. I have had a love affair with ice cream for 20 years which started when I first left South Africa to travel the world and realised what real super premium ice cream was all about. This is the ice cream version of the classic Italian dessert Tiramisu that is just a little bit decadent. Ingredients 150ml / 2/3 cup water 150gms ¾ cup sugar 250gms Mascarpone cheese 250 gms of crème fraiche or sour cream 1 tsp vanilla extract 3 tsp instant coffee dissolved in 3Tbs hot water 2 Tbs brandy or coffee liqueur 90 gms boudoir biscuits broken into small pieces cocoa powder for dusting Instructions Bring the water and 115gs of the sugar (½ cup) to the boil in a small pot until the sugar has dissolved. Copyright DrizzleandDip 2013 my ice cream feature in oprah magazine Like this: Like Loading...
Raw dark plum jam recipe, fermented with Kefir whey. Back to recipes menu Nicola, one of the participants at a 'Fun. Ferment and Families' workshop commented that this jam was best jam she had ever tasted. See a partially cooked version in the notes section at the bottom of this page. Makes 1 kg of dark red plums 1/2 cup of Australian raw honey 2 teaspoons of Kefir whey 1/2 teaspoon of Celtic sea salt 1/8 teaspoon cardamom 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves Wash the plums well, discarding any that are overripe or damaged. Transfer the plum jam mixture to clean jars, pressing it down with a wooden spoon to remove air bubbles. NOTES The kernels are high in vitamin B17 and can be ground into a flour and mixed in with the jam; just remember to extract the kernel from the shell. This makes a jam that is liquid rather than thick. The above recipe may be modified to create a set-jam by the following method. Network with like minded people at the Traditional Nutrition News Group. Share With Friends
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