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Tempeh is great. We make our own. You cook soybeans, then innoculate it with starter and let it do it's thing for 12 hours or so.. Hubby makes it so I'm not certain about how long it ferments - but the book Wild Fermentation has a lot of info on it. I think our fermentation temperature is about 104 ...

If you haven't seen this site, it might be helpful: http://menstrualcups.org/

Absolutely everything about cuppies and a nice helpful and active cuppie forum. :)

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31 Slice them up and turn them into plant marker labels


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We use ours for tire gardens. We have lousy soil but great compost. Growing in buckets and tires give us better growing soil and much better moisture retention that we can get in conventional garden beds.



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I personally think that lawns are usually a ridiculous use of precious resources. This news article is about some really out of whack community priorities.


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Hello from the state of Ohio, in the US.

My husband is from Dunswell.


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Just saw this thread so I thought I'd inventory the brew room. For wines, this is what we have made or still in progress: Strawberry Carrot Tomatillo Eastern redbud blossom sarsaparilla sassafras mint rice beet shiso eggplant coffee squash blossom Hibiscus & hollyhock blossom mixed blossom garli...

Sure. This is the book: http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Fermentation ... 1931498237

Kombucha is great. We've been making it weekly for a few years now. It's basically just a nice, tart drink. The tea you use contributes to the taste a little. You might get a little alcohol in it but it's certainly not an alcoholic drink We shared Kombucha mothers with families with children and the...

Our very favorite is Costata Romanesco. We are in the US and order ours from Johnny's Selected Seed http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/product.aspx?item=2053 but my market gardener mother in law in the UK is familiar with the cultivar name so I expect that they should be available there. The only ne...

Millymollymandy, those are Chinese red noodle beans. The beans are great, but the plants are also very strong, very productive and the flowers are beautiful with a wonderful fragrance. More photos of the beans and flowers here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynda_2008/sets/72157606499361282/ A good U...

This is our September 5th harvest: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3098/2830766539_859baf61d2.jpg And here's a link to the September 9th harvest (just for fun, not for the contest). http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynda_2008/2844616762/in/photostream/ We have something to harvest every day but I don't u...

Hi! I just stumbled across your site after seeing photos in your Flickr group. And earlier this week, my husband mentioned your site when he was looking for squash/marrow wine recipes. We are from the southeast part of Ohio, in the US. We have 15 acres and grow a lot of our own food. We have 8 goats...