Search Results for: label/tomatoes/2011/04/making-it

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Moldy Grapes!

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Fermentation, Food
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...but not nearly as devastating, or disgusting, as the loss of our sun-dried tomatoes to pantry moths. Like the moldy grape leaves, this was really a matter of not paying attention. Mold in general is a certain sign of not paying attention. I am also guilty of rushing. Certainly, you don’t want to leave your drying herbs out for so long that they lose flavor. Storage in glass, in the dark, is essential for protecting those volatile oils, but the her...

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Mistakes we have made . . .

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Animals, Chickens, Permaculture, Thoughtstylings
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...olar dehydrator (we’ll post about that soon), we dried a summer’s worth of tomatoes to use during the fall and winter. We put the entire harvest in one large jar. Several months later we had a jar full of pantry moth larvae. This is the entomological version of “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, a mistake we won’t soon repeat. Now we split dried goods into multiple jars so that in case some critters get it to one we’ll still have others. 5....

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Salsa Dancing in a World Without Oil

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Events
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...artists and organizers listed above. Bring your homegrown or street-picked tomatoes and collaborate with your neighbors on new and remarkable salsas. Bring a friend – this event is free to the public. Life After Oil The Environmental Change-Makers of Westchester (Los Angeles) present a series beginning September 14th called, “Life After Oil:Designing the Transition”. From their announcement: Join us as we explore the Transition Towns concept that...

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Terror of Tiny Town

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Animals, Chickens, Gardening, Self Watering Containers, Vegetable Gardening
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...of the cute and the tiny. Yesterday’s post about our miniature Red Currant tomatoes prompted Bruce F of Chicago to inform us that he’s working on the world’s smallest kale plant. He’s growing them in self-watering containers made with old pop bottles (more info on how to make a pop bottle self-watering container here and here). These pop bottle containers look like they’d work well for starting seeds, as they provide a constant source of water. Na...

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Saturday Tweets: Tweeterdämmerung

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Saturday Linkages
...er radio show is here to download Host Joey & Holly talk about How to keep tomatoes healthy all season long, The value of Bees guest Erik Knute of @rootsimple https://t.co/ZyjCrFNMZ6 pic.twitter.com/w2nKthe0Bm — TheWIVegGardener (@TheWIVegGardenr) June 24, 2019 Why did most major car makers install fake pollution controls on millions of cars? Answer: competition among capitalists to profit from car production. Competition for profits is not some c...

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