What IS lacto-fermentation? Does it have something to do with milk? Nope, it's a traditional way of food preservation. Read more to learn about why it works and how to do it at home.

Now that we're in the peak of harvest season, how do you preserve your hard-won gains? Freezing? Canning? How about more traditional ways, like drying or lacto-fermenting?

Raw versus pasteurized. Benefits versus risks. Health versus safety. Pastured versus confinement, grass-fed versus grain. These are the milk wars, taking place quietly—and not-so-quietly—across the country.

Permaculture is not a specific production system, but a philosophy.

A snapshot of life around our place for the last week: Our cat came down last weekend with what was likely “songbird fever”–ie, gastric upset/food poisoning at eating too many small wild critters that were already a little too dead. Sunday, it felt like all I did was clean up feline bodily fluids (mostly bloody [...]