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Damson Plum & Muscadine Butter
There’s a lovely little spot downtown that I quite enjoy walking past as I head into work. It’s an office in an old converted Victorian house, and they’ve planted the yard full of flowers, herbs, and even a lovely fruit tree. Once August began, I noticed that the sidewalk in front of their yard always…
Things I Love – Finding Balance
Between the book-writing and the baby, I feel blessed with abundance but that is concurrent with a lack of sleep and time in which to appreciate the blessings fully. I am lucky to be able to work from home as I resume some of the responsibilities from my day job, too. I’ve been struggling a…
Fermentation on Wheels!
Are they coming to your neighborhood? They’ll be in mine, soon! What is Fermentation on Wheels? Fermentation on Wheels is a community of gastronomic nomads with a mission to eat thoughtfully, teach fermentation, and connect people with their local food source. We are traveling the U.S.A. by school bus to harvest produce alongside small-scale farmers,…
Valerian Mint Cordial
Valerian Mint Cordial or as it is called in my home: “Shut Up and Go To Sleep!“ No matter how hard I try to maintain a good sleep schedule, I often find myself lying awake, staring at the ceiling long after I should be asleep. My mind is either going over tomorrow’s plans, replaying today’s conversations over…
Things I Love: This Busy Summer
“There’s a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” This Leonard Cohen lyric really helped me through a tough patch this summer. Nothing was exactly wrong, but everything just seemed a little harder and my mood hung somewhere between melancholy and razor-edged. You know how sometimes you can feel like there’s nothing you…
Do not feed the fears.
I know, I know. This blog is supposed to be all about recipes, brewing, gardening, and you know what? I’m trying. Honestly, I am. I’ve been a bit of a mess since the election and it’s been worse since the Inauguration. I’m scared for my friends and for my family. I’m disturbed by the willful violence…
Recipe Box: Farmer’s Bread and Homemade Croutons
As the temperature plummets into fall, I’ve been finding myself wanting something – anything – hot and fresh out of the oven. I am craving warm, dense food, like bread, butter, beer, stew, meat and spicy soups. Just the other day, I got lost in my old binder of collected recipes, some of them tried…
Kudzu Flower & Muscadine Wine
I went foraging in downtown Asheville, right smack dab in the middle of the city. Normally, urban foraging isn’t my favorite way to gather edible weeds and fruit because of the traffic and residual pollution, but Asheville is lucky enough to have an edible garden, the George Washington Carver Edible Park. The park is connected to…
How to Make Cold Compost for Your Garden
Alongside your gardening supplies, making compost for your garden will make sure that you have everything you need for healthy crops. For a good compost, you’ll need a mixture of 50/50 materials rich in nitrogen and carbon. You can find nitrogen in grass clipping, for example, and carbon in woody stems, for example. Unpleasant in…
Size Doesn’t Matter: Ways To Make Your Small Garden Super Impressive
[wpsm_quote author=”” float=”left” width=”100″]Enjoy this guest post from Greenhouse Sensation – a lovely garden supply site available to our readers in the United Kingdom. They offer many ways to make your small garden super impressive![/wpsm_quote] There’s nothing more frustrating than wanting to make something amazing of your garden, but being stuck for space. If you…
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