Episode 7: Fermenting Garden Excess
Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce · S. Nicole Williams
July 10, 201649m 12s
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Show Notes
Untested (by me) poke remedy to poison ivy: http://duplin.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/cookingcorner/pokeweedcure.htm
Wild things we are eating this week:
- Blackberries
- Daylilies
- Gathering lots of leaves for teas: sasafrass, mint, bee balm, blackberry leaves
What we are preserving this week:
- Corn
- Jams
- Beans
A word on managing canned goods: Audit your stock and organize it.
Fermenting Garden Excess
- Book Recommendation: Sandor Katz, The art of fermentation: http://amzn.to/29x4vOs
- Handy (FREE) video reference! Sandor Katz: http://www.wildfermentation.com/sandorkraut-the-video/
- Fermentation Lids I like and use: http://amzn.to/29wfESJ
- Brine website I like: http://www.probioticjar.com/brine.html
What you need
- Vegetables
- Salt
- Vessel: Jar, crock, anything really just no metal or plastic
- Wood spoon or other tool to help you push it down
- A way to weigh the veggies below the liquid (NWEdibleLife)
- Cool dark place
Troubleshooting
- White scum
- Black scum
- Off smells - fermentation smell or baby poo?
Song of the Episode: Suicide by Sauce