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Food Preservation, Slow Food

Food Preservation Part Deuce: Freezing Your Produce

A while back I discussed a fairly complicated method of preserving the harvest: natural fermentation. Now that spring is finally here, fresh, local produce is once again trickling into farmers markets around town. Pretty soon, the trickle will turn into a deluge, and the refrigerator will be jam-packed with spring goodies. What [...]

Food Preservation, Recipes, Sauerkraut, Vegetable Ferments

Making Sauerkraut at Home

Fermenting cabbage, or any other vegetable crop, is an ancient and low-tech way of preserving the harvest. Making sauerkraut at home is easy, and the result is night and day from the insipid, mushy pulp that passes for kraut at your local Kroger.   Homemade kraut is healthier too, because unlike the pasteurized stuff at the [...]