Land to Mouth
Cooking and preserving home.grown and foraged food,
Dirt Cheap Fertilizer: micro-organisms
JADAM: people who are like nature The year before last a friend introduced us to JADAM: ultra low-cost organic farming from Korea. JADAM means, ‘people who are like nature’ and refers to nature-like people who choose to follow the wisdom…
First Six Years of the Garden
Year One in the Garden We moved here in May 2013, into the cabin we built, and in the winter of 2014 we cleared about an acre of straggly pines, from a gentle south facing slope to the west of…
Dreamcatcher Tomatoes
We finally got to put up the trellis for the tomatoes. We’ve wanted to get them closer to the house for a long time, but first we had to build the house and clear the rubble. That’s taken a few…
Easy Five Star Chicken Coop
Greetings! My name is Zubynelgenubi, Zubi to my friends. I’m a gallo piñeira and I’m the king of the five star chicken coop, that was made by my valet Mister D, following my instructions. Mister D had a hard time…
Salvage Greenhouse
DIY greenhouse from salvage This was our first greenhouse effort: Several hundred euros, several hundred pieces to put together, eighty-five pages of instructions and fifteen minutes of wind! Obviously way too suburban for our environment. We salvaged some bits of…
Wild Juicing
Foraging for weeds Whatever the weather, our day starts with walking the dogs and (sometimes with cats in tow) and sometimes foraging for weeds. We are lucky to live in an area where there is no intensive farming, no crop…
Water Management and Dealing with Your Own Shit
Enough of everyone else’s shit yet? The first year here, our neighbour farmer dumped a trailer load of cow manure on the garden, when I wasn’t around, and told my husband that I asked for it! Well, that was an…
Making Apple Cider Vinegar
I was given a bag of apples the other day; completely organic but I’m an apple snob. I love a crisp sharp Braeburn, but most red apples are just a bit too mealy. I’m not a fan of apple sauce…
Medusa’s Garden
Our kitchen garden is really Medusa’s Garden, the orchard and the areas around and in between. Why Medusa? Because that’s a name for the primordial serpent energy of the land and there’s that wildness here. If the land doesn’t like…
Rosehip syrup
This week I made rosehip syrup. Our hedgerows have masses of wild roses and at this time of year the hips are bright red. Rosehips are an excellent, natural and local source of vitamin C through the winter, much of…
