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Hi, I'm Dave and thanks for visiting. I garden in Zone 6b in southern Indiana, and I blog here about gardening, nature and food.
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Tag Archives: lacto-fermentation
Monday Recap: Crunchy and Seeded
Lots of crunchy vegetables are coming in right now. Like the April Cross daikon radishes. I’ll probably ferment some of those in the below photo for crunchy pickles. A little bit of them went on a salad yesterday, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardening
Tagged blueberries, bluebirds, carrots, crackers, garlic, gooseberries, house sparrows, kohlrabi, lacto-fermentation, lettuce, Monday Recap, radishes, raspberries, tepary
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Monday Recap: June Swoon
Here at Happy Acres we are swooning about cherries. Well, we are excited about them, but not to the point of fainting. Last week my wife and I made what has become our annual pilgrimage to Farview Orchards to pick … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged asparagus, blackberries, blueberries, bluebirds, cherries, lacto-fermentation, lettuce, Monday Recap, onions, radishes, raspberries
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Monday Recap: Frozen and Smoked
Last week brought our first real frost of the fall season, and also a hard freeze. With temperatures expected to fall to near 25°F Sunday morning, that meant it was time for a sweep of the garden to harvest anything … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged bell peppers, broccoli, cabbage, hot peppers, Kossak, lacto-fermentation, Monday Recap, sauerkraut, smoking, turnips, winter squash
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Homemade: Fermented Hot Sauce
Traditionally, hot pepper sauces have been made by fermenting a mash of chopped up peppers. Many of the world’s best known and most loved hot sauces are lacto-fermented before bottling, including Tabasco and sriracha. For the last few years I … Continue reading
Posted in Homemade, Preserving, Recipes
Tagged homemade, Hot Happy Yummy, hot peppers, hot sauce, lacto-fermentation, peppers
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