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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Grilled Cheese & Pepperoni, PBJ Sandwiches

PBJ made from homemade bread; teff flour, whole wheat flour.

Mushrooms, Swan Creek Drainage

Lichen and Snowberry - Wapato Hills Park

Tongue Point - Strait of Juan de Fuca

Bushcraft Lunch - Strait of Juan de Fuca

Numerous loads of fresh horse manure are taken to the garden and deposited in long composting trenches. It settles for a year, mixing with other manures, straw, leaves, and grass clippings. After a year, it is worked into the soil, a very rich amendment! This manure is free for the taking.

Collard Succotash & WW-Teff Bread

Used the left-over whey from cheese-making to simmer the collards. Boy was that good! Lower photo, yogurt cultures.

Foraging: Black Walnuts - Flaming Geyser SP

Keeping Notes, On Augusta, Montana

Little Things in a Big Country, by Hannah Hinchman
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Things-Big-Country-Mountain/dp/039332866X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452985342&sr=1-1&keywords=little+things+in+a+big+country

Natural Source of Calcium Carbonate

Choctaw ancestors ground up mussel shells, adding the crushed flakes to their pottery for a stronger pot. Their corn-based foods cooked in these pots became more nutritious from the chemical interaction with the calcium carbonate in the shell

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Canadian Chaga for Tea

Pound it, wrapped, into a powder. Black part is OK. Heat water to boiling, turn down to simmer. Add chaga, simmer on low for at least an hour. Do not boil or steep in warm (only) water; this saves the nutrients. Some people simmer it for a day, to make a kind of tincture, very thick like syrup.