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In this video, I show you how I fermented ginger, garlic, onions, and chillies for FIVE MONTHS to make an AWESOME chilli hot sauce live and full of probiotics and healthy antioxidants! Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden bed in the USA: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ and use SSME2020 for a 5% discount. In Australia & New…
#AcreHomestead #Kombucha #ContinuouseBrewKombucha Instagram https://www.instagram.com/acrehomestead/ @Acre Homestead If you want to learn the easiest way to brew kombucha the continuous brew system is the one for you! I love kombucha but the way I used to make it was too labor-intensive and I didn’t have time for it anymore. Now that I have the continuous…
In this video, I show you my fermented tomatoes recipe to preserve them and also improve the taste to make sauce or add to other recipes and cooking for inner health and goodness. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme (the top tier $25 AU enables mentoring from yours truly via an exclusive VIP email where I…
Make Your Own Organic Fertilizer From Weeds Right Out Of Your Garden! Weeds are amazing plants with the ability to extract nutrients and elements where other plants cannot. We can use the foliage from these weeds to make a super-charged liquid fertilizer that will send your backyards crops to the stratosphere! This homemade fertilizer is…
My favorite bokashi bran, FREE shipping: https://shop.epicgardening.com/collections/composting/products/sd-microbes-bierkashi-bokashi-blend-5-to-50-lbs Bokashi composting is one of my favorite ways to make extra use of an abundance of food scraps. By building a simple bokashi bin or bokashi bucket, and using inoculated bran as a fermentation agent, you can ‘pre-digest’ food scraps before you put them into your soil. It’s…
Why make cultured foods? What is fermentation? What does fermenting do to vegetables, and why eat them? The 26th Annual Organic Growers School Spring Conference welcomes Marissa Percoco, teacher of “Wild Mead Making”. In this interview, she discusses her background as a homesteader and her discovery of fermentation as a solution to off-grid, no-refrigeration life,…
What to do when you have too many scobys? Clean with them of course! So I took some of my kombucha vinegar, orange slices my kids left on the floor, and a month, and brewed up this weird concoction. Will it clean my oven? You’ll have to watch to find out.
I have been slacking on my kombucha brewing over the winter, but it is time to start it again. Come chat kombucha while I set up my continous brew vessel, and try to figure out what to do with 4 liters of vinegar.
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With too many berries, and not enough ways to preserve them, I started my journey into ferments with this rumtopf. And now with a few things under my belt, I am excited to pull this Christmas treat out and start enjoying it. Its a fairly simple recipe combining equal parts fruit and sugar in rum,…
Having now been brewing kombucha for a little while I am finally happy with the supplies that I have to use. And I also want to pivot one the gear that I have been using to ferment pickles and other items, so if any husbands are listening (Ian), these would be some great gift ideas.…
I promised my grandpa that I would make quince liquor for Christmas when he gave me my quince. So 6 weeks ago I chopped up the quince, add sugar and alcohol. And because I need an excuse to try it because I am getting too impatient for Christmas, lol, I’m making a second one with…
Over the holidays, I always end up with a few half or quarter bottles of wine that I have no plans to drink, so rather than pushing them into the back of the fridge, I decided to mix them all together into a jar of wine vinegar. Vinegar is an easy ferment, it just takes…
Step by step clips of my 2 months of trying to make this apple cider vinegar, leads to a funny ending, in this Fermentation Friday video. I grew a couple of great mother of vinegars that will be very helpful for the future, but I didn’t ferment the tastiest vinegar. But you can get a…
Are you making more kombucha than you can keep up with drinking? Do what I did, and forget about a batch for a month or two – and tada, you have vinegar. I’m really excited to start making vinegar because I buy a lot of it, for clean and cooking. And the idea of having…
Moldy kombucha is a complaint that I hear about all the time, so I am experimenting to find out ways that can cause issues for your kombucha culture. So I try out 3 different ways to get mold growing, including using a crazy mold culture that I going to say I grew on purpose, lol.…
These pickles smelled too good to just dump into the compost because of a little (okay, a lot) of kham yeast. I should have dealt with these earlier, but life got in the way. So now, for fermentation friday, I try to rinse off the yeast, and hope for a good flavor even after my…
Fermenting foods can be an adventure in discovery and flavor as you learn new ways to combine delicious ingredients and implement expert tips. Learn from experienced fermenters and their own pitfalls and successes to advance you in your culinary journey with cultured foods. Join Meredith Leigh, Meg Chamberlain of Fermenti Foods and Sarah Archer of…
Okay, I grew the most perfect specimen of kham yeast that anyone has ever seen, and have proven myself to be the worst fermenter of all time, lol. If you are wondering what that funky stuff on the top of your ferment is, look no further for a kham yeast comparison, lol. Luckily, it isn’t…
Fermented pickles seem like magic to me, but ideally I would like to be able to preserve pickles over the winter in my cold storage, and I’m not quite there yet. Serina shares how her summer pickles are doing for fermentation Friday. Some have gone moldy, but the sauerkraut is still going strong. With improved…
Kombucha is all about having a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast, and my yeast is currently not at a healthy balance. To try and get my brew back to the best balance possible, this week I am cleaning my continuous brew kombucha vessel. There is too much yeast, and the yeast that is in…
This week I give brewing kombucha without a scoby a try. I have been seeing conversations about not needing the scoby culture mat to successfully ferment kombucha tea, and just using the starter tea, or even a store bought kombucha, so I gave it a try. And it was a great success! The kombucha brewed…
I’m no kombucha expert, but I have learned a few things since starting to drink and research this fermented tea. And I’m willing to share it with you. And most of all, I’m willing to share how much I am enjoying drinking and brewing it. Kombucha makes you poop. Kombucha needs (potentially dangerous) pressure to…
Got back from Vacation yesterday evening. Spent a week in Mallorca Spain. Now to see what has happened with the garden in my absence.
In this video diary of my first attempt of second fermenting kombucha I have some success and some failure. I flavor my batch with fresh ginger. One bottle gets some mold that I show in detail, and another bottle gets drank! Can you guess what my husbands reaction is?
We are starting a weekly series all about learning how to ferment! Every week we will be researching and trying out a new fermentation recipe, and giving you an update on the progress of our past ferments. Watch me learn from the beginning, or better yet, get in on the fun and ferment along with…
Mortier Pilon preserving products are as beautiful as they are functional, and I was very excited to open these bad boys up. Check out all the extras and great packaging that comes with them, as well as a quick explanation of the different parts. Join our journey as I learn all about fermenting using these…
Walk through of half of the Garden beginnings and it’s progression.
This video will self destruct after a few days. Not the type of video I want to leave up long.
