The early bird gets the worm, they say, and when it comes to Texas gardening I really think that is true. Back in the Midwest, June through September were the months in which you could find garden goodness of all kinds. We now mostly count those months as off season months with their persistent heat…
I have probably said this a hundred times now: Almost nothing on the homestead happens as we thought it might. Take for instance the prospect of raising hogs. We’d been talking about it for years but of course always had higher priorities. Chickens and dairy animals and barns for those dairy animals all came at…
One of my favorite ways to use up whatever we are harvesting is simply by mixing it with a carb or protein. So potatoes, rice, pasta, beans, meat, etc. become the vehicle for all of the goodness from the garden. Right now we are harvesting lettuce, peas, fava bean greens (they taste just like peas!),…
So today is the day that Traditionally Fermented Foods is available to all. To mark the occasion, I just wanted to share why, when my publisher asked me what I wanted to write about, I chose food fermentation. The thing about fermented foods that I would tell everyone, if I could, is that there isn’t…
