Kate Downham

Kate Downham lives a simple life off-grid in the forest, milking goats, making cheese, growing food, fermenting, preserving, and teaching these skills in a practical and accessible way. She blogs and shares recipes on her website the nourishing hearth fire.

Dec- 2023 -

28 December

Food

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Yoghurt Without Fail

Yoghurt with a taste similar to what we might find in a grocery shop was something I gave up on…
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Nov- 2023 -

13 November

Food

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Easy ways to preserve tomatoes off the grid

In A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen I included recipes for five of my favourite ways to preserve tomatoes with water…
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Sep- 2023 -

14 September

Food

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Permaculture Cheesemaking

Most of the cheese we see in supermarkets is made with weird lab-grown cultures and GMO rennet, using a bunch…
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Nov- 2018 -

15 November

Animal Housing

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Goats and Permaculture

Bill Mollison once wrote that goats in any large number are incompatible with permaculture. Goats when overstocked can quickly turn…
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Yoghurt Without Fail

Easy ways to preserve tomatoes off the grid

Permaculture Cheesemaking

Goats and Permaculture