Doodads — tomato, prickly pear propagation, fermenting, witch hazel, oh my

There are still pics from Tuesday at fmg but they will have to wait.  Instead, the focus of this post will be tomatoes, prickly pear propagation, more fermentation, and status of the witch hazel bushes. Tomatoes It’s been an ongoing experiment with the purple reign tomatoes.  The reviews that said they produced dwarf tomatoes is…

dVerse — quadrille — Katz Quadrille

Katz Quadrille Cabbage calls Honey moons Grapes grope Scoby sirens sing Flour water waits Attuned for Wild whooshes Yowling yeasts descend Bashful bacteria nuzzle up Sauerkraut kimchi cha-chas Meandering mead Charismatic chablis Kiwi kombucha kicks San Franciscan sourdough Fermentation frenzy Build it and they will come To learn more about Sandor Katz and Wild Fermentation,…

#SoCS — Dough & Dough

Linda G. Hill is the host of Stream of Consciousness Saturday.  Linda says: Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “dough/d’oh.” Use one, use both, use ’em any way you like. Enjoy! Dough.  Dinero.  Money.  We all need dough. Economies operate on it, so it is the dough itself or things that are…

News of Interest to Kombucha Brewers

image link, which will also take you to a how-to on making kombucha A couple of weeks ago, my sons and their SOs came over.  I warned them there were a few fruit flies flitting around and apologized.  They immediately said, “mom do you have any apple cider vinegar?”  I said yes and they instructed…