Processing & Food Preservation
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Micro Business – Soy Products
After several months of making tofu and soymilk weekly for ourselves and some customers, I thought I would share the…
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New Trees in Guatemala That Are Not Just for Reforestation
Special bicycle for shelling coffee beans It sounds strange to speak of poverty as an exciting opportunity, but many of…
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Life in Season: What to Do with All Those Mangoes (& Other Harvesting Conundrums)
We knew it was coming. Hell, we were excited about the fact that it was coming. We were returning to…
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Solar Tyre Cooker
Sketch showing the solar tyre cooker With relatively inexpensive materials and easy to construct, a solar tyre cooker can be…
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Preserving With Pesto – It’s Not Rocket Science
One of the biggest challenges in permaculture is working out how to catch and store energy, especially when it comes…
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Gut Microbes, Probiotics, Leaky Gut, and Autoimmune Disease
A little background and history on gut microbes. You’ve probably already heard about how our little gut microbes (bacteria, yeast,…
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Zeer Pot: Demonstration of Its Effectiveness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNLPeb3qIhc A Zeer Pot – Off Grid Refrigeration (Duration 5:36 minutes) A zeer pot is an ancient device used to…
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Bottled Sunshine – Preserving Fruit Goodness
There’s not much better on a cold winter’s morning than breakfasting on preserved summer fruits. But just how do you…
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Living Without a Fridge
by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of…
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Fomenting Ferment
by Albert Bates Sandor Katz lives a couple hours across Tennessee from us, so on a delightful April weekend we…
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MittiCool – Clay Refrigerator
Most of you will be familiar with the pot-in-pot refrigerator by now. Well, today we’ll revisit this concept by taking…
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What To Do With Apples From the Backyard Orchard
by Ernest Rando This post is a general how-to for preserving apples. We have a 3-ish acre orchard (mostly apples)…
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