Mois : mars 2017
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Making Dandelion Wine – Photos and Step by Step Instructions
Yard full of dandelions!
I’ve decided to learn how to make wine from the dandelions in my yard! Why? When John Michael Greer was here a month ago, he suggested various kinds of reskilling to help us transition to post industrialism. One of his suggestions was to learn how to brew something because everyone always wants a good brew–and so, I am. I figured that now is as good of a time as any to learn to make some wine! Lucky for me, one of my good friends brews beer often, so he helped walk me through the process.
Additionally, dandelions get a bad rap in our society–Americans and other industrialized nations spend millions of dollars and dump millions of petrochemical weed killers on getting rid of dandelions. But as the book Gaia’s Garden: A Home-Scale Guide to Permaculture describes, the dandelion is an incredibly important plant. Its deep tap…
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Ode to the Apple: Harvest, Pressing, and Fermenting Apple Cider
Crab Apples ripening
I’ve been meaning to write a series of posts on the apple tree for quite a while, and here in the depths of winter, I have finally found time to do so! And while my timing is off season, I think it also gives us a look forward 8 months to a wonderful harvest in the year to come.
Ode to the Apple
Last year, I was introduced to the introduced me to the blessing and magic that is the apple tree. This process started with an Apple Wassailing in early January in 2013 (which we again did in 2014). But it wasn’t till later in the season, in early spring, that one of my friends really introduced me to the blessing and incredible nature of the apple. As my friend and I would be driving around or out on a foraging expedition, he’d point out the…
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