As I’m sure you are aware, cleaning products don’t have the best record on the environmental scale. This started, many years ago now, a lucrative “green industry” of cleaning products. Lots of people talk about green cleaning, Oprah, the EPA and the Organic Consumers Association to name a few. This surely is a step in…
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Home Brew Kombucha – Second fermentation
Now we get into the second fermentation part of how to home brew kombucha. You may want to read the first fermentation part. Once kombucha tea smells or tastes a bit more vinegary than sweet you can start. How do you know? It’s really more of a trial and error thing. As with most…
Home Brew Kombucha – First fermentation
It had gotten out of control. I was maintaining six large jars to brew Kombucha a week, while pressing my own organic juices to add for the second fermentation. Not sure who was serving who! Then, one day I get the bright idea to try and use Mate instead of regular tea as a starter…
Clean Home
As I’m cleaning my home after a successful valentine’s day party (early I know), I think I’ll share a great all purpose cleaner recipe. This is from Clean House Clean Planet. A good intro to cleaning without chemicals. Most of the recipes use white distilled vinegar, baking soda, Dr. Bronner’s soap, lemons, and borax. Nothing…
Not Just For Greeks!
The other day I saw an Olive tree and for the last time thought to my self, how hard can it be to cure olives? So here we go. First pick olives from tree. Preferably an olive tree… Cut a slit all around each olive. To prepare brine, add a mixture of water and salt…