Processing & Food Preservation
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10 Things to Do with Avocadoes Besides Making Guacamole
Over the last five years, I’ve spent a good three of them living and working at an eco-hotel, Earth Lodge,…
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Fermenting Beverages
It was some time ago, over a year to completely admit the extent of my procrastination, that I was working…
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A Little Sauce on the Side: Your Guide to DIY Condiments
Homemade Condiment Collection For all of the growing and eating of fresh produce most of us do, or aspire to…
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3 Super-Quick Do-It-Yourself Recipes for the Urban Home Gardener
You’ve spent the time and effort growing your produce, nurturing and watching over it as it sprouts into life. One…
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How to Make Cider, Cider Vinegar, and Why You Should Be Doing It
Apple Cider from Above I ran into a funny story in a Michael Pollan book not long ago: The American…
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Petri Dish Mushroom Cultures
Everyone is at least somewhat familiar with the plant kingdom but the fungi kingdom is very little known and understood…
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Varieties, Additives and Sourcing: What’s Happening with your food?
Photography by Ingrid Pullen Eating: one of the most simple and basic human activities. Yet as our food systems become…
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Foraging Fun: Ginkgo biloba
Ginkgo biloba, commonly known as the maidenhair tree or just plain ginkgo, has got to be one of the most…
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How to Brine Your Own Olives
Olives ripe on the tree. Photos: Aisha Abdelhamid For those fortunate folks living in the northern hemisphere, now is the…
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Amptee’s Olives Processing at the “Greening the Desert” Sequel Site (Jordan)
My mother-in-law, Amptee, is a very traditional Jordanian woman, having lived on and from the desert land all her life,…
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The Problem is Abundance; the Solution is Abundance of Ferments! (Australia)
Photos: Ingrid Pullen If you are lucky enough to come to PRI Zaytuna Farm you will be shocked with the…
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How to Steal from Your Neighbors and Have Them Love You For It (Panama)
Stolen leaves over yucca plants with banana circle backer The first time I did it I did so on the…
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