There are baby cucumbers where once there were just flowers. There are little summer squash babies soon ready for picking. The cilantro has gone to seed, which means coriander is at the top of the pickling spice list. Yes, I believe very soon we will be fermenting pickles. (Scroll down for my favorite Kosher Dill…
I’ve been getting quite a few questions lately about how we manage the heat off-grid, with no air conditioning. Um, is not very well and day-by-day a good enough answer? I guess that’s the honest answer, but I’ll try to share more about that another day. I can share a slightly more elaborate answer to…
There is this little waiting/dreaming game I do at this time of year in the garden. While I water and see the tomatoes, squash, peppers, cucumbers, and tomatillos flowering; I begin dreaming up vegetable ferment combinations. Definitely seeing a red and green salsa in there somewhere. Perhaps some summer squash pickles with the gads of…
Do you remember that day one of us said “I can’t take it anymore, I’m going to the garden.”?Well, that someone was the Papa there, and while everyone seemed to be having a particularly rough day, the garlic was also ready to be harvested to make way for some beans. So, to the garden we…
