Internet canning recipes have always been sketchy, but search engine optimization (SEO) is now forcing the worst of the worst to the top of searches. AI articles and dunces like Brad Leone only intensify the damage. Please only use recipes from trusted sources. #canning #preserving #fermenting

The Ball website is good
http://ballmasonjars.com

So is the National Center for Home Food Preservation
https://nchfp.uga.edu/index.html

I personally dig University Extension Offices
https://impact.extension.org/search/

Introduction Post:
My name is Christy and use they/them pronouns (#enby/#agender). I live in rural so-called #Lunenburg in the #SouthShore of #Mikmaki/#Acadie/#NovaScotia. I’m a settler who grew up in the Ottawa Valley and my family are #FrenchCanadian and #Irish who come from Quebec. I identify myself with #socialecology, #ancom, #peasantanarchist, and #agrariansyndicalist movements.

I am a #PhD candidate in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, and I hope to finish writing my thesis this summer (#phdlife). My studies focus on #neoMarxist, #anarchist, and #decolonial approaches to #AgrarianPoliticalEconomy and #PoliticalEcology. I am specifically investigating historical patterns of #farmland distribution from 2000 to 2017 in #easternOntario through the use of property transfer records mapped using #QGIS. I am hoping to apply my method in Mikmaki next.

I am also a #garlic #farmer preserving as many varieties as I can. I have training in #agroecology, #organic, and #permaculture approaches to #horticulture. I help organize with my local chapter of the #NationalFarmersUnion and am interested in meeting other radical farmers, #landworkers, #homesteaders, #neopeasants, etc. who are interested in organizing for #foodsovereignty, #localfood systems, and #landback.

Other than all that, I am also fond of #tabletoproleplay, #fantasyliterature, #solarpunk #scifi, #bioregionalanimism, #baking, #wildcrafting, #foraging, #homebrewing, #fermenting, and #woodcarving.

It's a good day for makin' dandelion wine!
This European poor-man's alcohol is sort of a rite of passage here in my region. It does not taste great, but will get you absolutely wasted. The rite is kinda like going to Vegas: What happens while drunk on dandelion wine stays there.

#Fermenting #Dandelions

Made black tea for a new batch of Kombucha. Poured four quarts out of my glass fish bowl (fermenting bowl) this time around. After fermenting another three days, this batch will have me set for another week. #Kombucha #Fermenting

Here's a video of a Polish dude showing how to make sauerkraut using the same method as my dad uses. It's not very difficult if you have the right tools. And even if all you have is a knife, you can make it pretty easily. I think even if you don't speak Polish it's possible to follow what's going on (though I do so I could be wrong!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TySN-undSm0

#cooking #food #fermenting

When I visited my parents this spring, I helped my dad make sauerkraut. He has a device for slicing the cabbage, a kind of wooden plank with slicers in it, big enough to slice a whole cabbage. It's called a szatkownica --mandoline in English, but that doesn't do it justice. He sliced up dozens of cabbages while I threw them into a bucket, layerd salt, and smashed them with a wooden pestle thing like a baseball bat.

#cooking #food #fermenting

In the meantime, the new sauerkraut is set to ferment a bit. I just slice it into thin bits, and layer salt and cabbate layers, then punch them a bit. When it's nice and squished, I cover it with some plactic wrap in a big bowl, put a plate on top, and then weigh that down with a jar full of water. This is all very small batch, just a couple of cabbages.

Tomorrow I'll probably move it into jars and let it sit until I want to cook with it.

#cooking #food #fermenting

In the meantime, the new saurkraut is set to ferment a bit. I just slice it into thin bits, and layer salt and cabbate layers, then punch them a bit. When it's nice and squished, I cover it with some plactic wrap in a big bowl, put a plate on top, and then weigh that down with a jar full of water. This is all very small batch, just a couple of cabbages.

Tomorrow I'll probably move it into jars and let it sit until I want to cook with it.

#cooking #food #fermenting

My family doesn’t quite like how I cook red cabbages (I’m open to good recipe suggestions), so I’m #fermenting this half a head to see if they like this. Added 2% salt by weight. After a day, not enough water came out and the leaves were still tough so I added 2% brine after to cover (not shown) #food #cooking #fermentation

The #trap is a fundamentally flawed entrenched #system where one of a #duopoly wins control and decides the minimum it can do to address needs and will of the people while remaining obedient, respectful and responsive to the hand of #capital The #theater is in the #fermenting of conflicts on enduring hot button issues distracting from the neglected problems plaguing #citizens. People are so team trained they are lost in winning competitions for fantasy changes that the dysfunc repeats unheeded.

#motherhood #gardening #Fermenting #moss #ferns #cats #nonprofits #civicengagement #kcmo #kansascity #kansascitychiefs #marriage #liberal #climatechange #jambands #coffee #90shiphop #vintage #equity #inclusion #ally #forests #water #outdoorlife #civilrights #nature #homesteading #cheese #urbanecology #feminism #publiclibrary #urbandesign #publicadministration #graduatestudent #anticapitalism #smallbusiness #atheist #introvert

#motherhood #gardening #Fermenting #moss #ferns #cats #nonprofits #civicengagement #kcmo #kansascity #kansascitychiefs #marriage #liberal #climatechange #jambands #coffee #90shiphop #vintage #equity #inclusion #ally #forests #water #outdoorlife #civilrights #nature #homesteading #cheese #urbanecology #feminism #antifa #publiclibrary #urbandesign #publicadministration #graduatestudent #anticapitalism #smallbusiness #atheist #introvert

An #introduction you say?

I'm James, the #actor, not the cricketer: 42; happy, if a bit tired.

These days you'll find me dadding my 3 and 1-yr-old girls, while tending to a growing number of hobbies: still #baking after lockdown 1; now #brewing too (#cider); noodling (guitar); jamming (raspberry); #foraging; and working up to #fermenting my first vegetable (cabbage, natch).

Bored of the noise, the polarisation, the algorithmised outrage: I hope it's quieter here. Kinder, too?

Hi all 👋 x

An #introduction you say?

I'm James, the #actor, not the cricketer: 42; happy, if a bit tired.
These days you'll find me dadding my 3 and 1-yr-old girls, while tending to a growing number of hobbies: still #baking after lockdown 1; now #brewing too (cider); noodling (guitar); jamming (raspberry); #foraging; and working up to #fermenting my first vegetable (cabbage, natch).

Tired of the noise, the polarisation, the algorithmised outrage: I hope it's quieter here. Kinder, too?

Hi all 👋 x