In times of old people naturally fermented their foods in order to extend the shelf life (if they had a shelf that is) Food tasted a bit different when it was naturally fermented and it added extra flavour to otherwise bland food. What they probably […]
You will need these utensils:Heavy frying pan or grillerA very large saucepanIncubator set at 30ºCThermometerTrayBefore the soy sauce can be made, we need to make a Shoyu Koji Sauce7 cups of soy beans6 ½ cups whole wheat berries2 teaspoons starter3 ½ cups sea salt1 gallon […]
Do you fall into the same rut every summer with your vegetable garden? We can grow many of our favourite vegetables through most of the year but when the summer heat strikes, most of our plants just seem to wilt away.Lettuces bolt to seed and […]
We first started keeping a couple of pigs nearly twenty years ago and had only a two year break of having none. Now that’s eighteen years of pig keeping, and as you might guess, we like having them. This means that we have a steady […]
We’ve been backyard bee keeping for twenty-one years now and I certainly couldn’t possibly imagine life without a perennial supply of honey at my finger tips. Having our own honey has always given me that sense of appreciation for this natural sweetener which changes in […]
This is the basic home made soap recipe.I found the instructions for making soap in The Australian Earth Garden’s Self- Sufficiency Handbook on page 324 – very handy over the years.Use plastic buckets and a wooden spoon and wear rubber gloves and have some vinegar […]
When planting tropical vegetables it needs to be kept in mind that they generally take up more space than the average temperate vegetable such as lettuce, beans and capsicum. Tropical vegetables are by nature perennial and they grow to a larger proportion in size and […]