January 19, 2024. The garlic ferment is on day four. The heady scent of fermentation that echoes roasting garlic is just starting. The last of the 2024 crop is all in the fermentation vessel. This is an annual gardening milestone! The individual garlic cloves release the skins easier after a few minutes of blanching. #fermentation, #garlic, #kimchi, #minnesota, #growyourown, #gardening, #nodig, #Zone4b.
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January 6, 2025. Fermented hot sauces are still important. This is Sosu from the Kirsten Shockey book. The paste is the balance of our 2024 hot peppers, fermented 2023 garlic paste, palm sugar, and fish sauce. The fermentation started October 24th and ended today. Some of the hot peppers were sun dried so the flavor is wonderful and complicated. It’s got more heat and less sweet than gochujang. #fermentation, #minnesota, #growyourown, #gardening, #nodig, #zone4b, #garlic, #Gochujang.
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December 30, 2024. Nature presents an afternoon opossum foraging in the runner duck space. The runner duck team has spotters, which noted the opossum. The team decided this visit would not activate the runner duck run away response. #minnesota, #ducksofmastodon, #getoutside.
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December 29, 2024, there is no frost in the ground, there should be a layer of frost. However, eating the tasty vegetables is still important. The squash soup loves the fermented leek paste and the fermented Rempah. The leeks were a first for our 2024 gardening season. #fermentation #rempah, #growyourown, #minnesota, #gardening, #zone4b.
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This particular Monday is for baking falafel. This photo is the best of the lot. The chickpeas were seasoned with fermented pastes of garlic and Zhug. #fermentation, #garlic, #Zhug, #falafel, #growyourown,
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December 7, 2024. The red cabbage has shared pigments with the shredded leeks. They spent two weeks fermenting together and agreed to be this color and this flavor. It’s crunchy and lightly bitter. #fermentation, #minnesota, #growyourown, #nodig, #leeks, #sauerkraut
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December 1, 2024. We are processing raw chickpea hummus to enjoy later. The green chickpeas have been sprouted. The hummus will ferment on the counter to blend the flavors. The garlic and Rempah are garden fermentations. The tahini and dry spices are from the store. #hummus, #growyourown, #garlic, #Rempah, #minnesota, #chickpeas
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November 25, 2024. The fermented leek paste is lovely and bitter today. It will ferment on the countertop until it tastes right. We enjoyed leeks for paste, sauerkraut, and roasting over the last week. We will be smart in 2025. The leek harvest will be spread out over September, October, and November. And we will copy the Charles Dowding leek planting ideas. Gardening includes optimism. #minnesota, #zone4b, #fermentation, #growyourown.
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November 22, 2024. Harvesting the leeks of southern Minnesota. There will be roasted leeks, fermented leek paste, and fermented cabbage and leek kraut. The nodig garden and the garlic, onions, and leeks have a happy symbiosis. #fermentation, #nodig, #growyourown.
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The first time for us leeks are still green and robust. We have a dozen. They are still growing bigger to my eyes. How much freezing does it take to damage the crop? We have had a few frosty mornings in southern Minnesota. @Broadfork, @Iva852, @feinschmeckergarten. #nodig, #growyourown, #minnesota, #Zone4b, #pollinators.
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The 2024 Rempah fermentation has been jarred. Two of the seven pints are pictured. It is a spicy Indonesian sauce we started on October 16th. At least we have good sauces for the dark times. We will share. This is a Kirsten Shockey recipe. #rempah, #sambal, #indonesia, #minnesota, #growyourown, #fermentation, #nodig, #pollinators.
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November 7, 2024 PM. Garlic planting about half done. Soil temperature is 60 F, 15 C. Soil moisture is passable. Using a bulb planting tool to make the individual holes. Placing each clove with love. Happy to see the many earthworms. Happy to have leaf mulch. #nodig, #gardening, #garlic, #minnesota, #pollinators, #growyourown, #compost, #kimchi.
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November 7, 2024. Garlic planting day one is on our list. Area has been mulched. Nature has shared two inches (5 cm) of rain. Planting is an act of service. #nodig, #minnesota, #growyourown, #garlic, #gardening.
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November 4, 2024. The Indonesian Sambal is jarred after four weeks of fermentation. The early 2024 hot pepper crop has yielded a fine Sambal. This is a Kirsten Shockey recipe. Thank you Kirsten. Thank you Indonesia. #fermentation, #growyourown, #sambal, #indonesia, #garlic, #nodig, #minnesota, #pollinators.
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November 3, 2024. Aronia berries wish to be preserved as jam. So do the raspberries. This batch is 1,600 grams, 2/3rds aronias. There will be some dried ginger because it makes a tasty mixed fruit jam. This is the first jam making of fall 2024. We have been out of jam for a while, waiting for a rainy day. #minnesota, #aronia, #growyourown, #jam, #JamMaking, #raspberries
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No dig gardening, October 23, 2024. A few plants continue to blossom for the pollinators. This is a renegade bok choi. The garlic bed is getting mulched with both leaf mulch and duck bedding. This is a satisfying gardening milestone. The garlic planting will wait for colder weather. #garlic, #nodig, #pollinators, #minnesota, #ClimateDiary.
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Rempah is on my mind. Let’s say these sentinent vegetables know of spicy Indonesian meals. Rempah is their path to be spicy Indonesian meals. This fermentation will take place on the kitchen counter in a crock. About 3,000 grams of shiny ingredients will take this trip. #growyourown, #nodig, #fermentation, #Rempah, #minnesota.
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These ripe vegetables aspire to be Kasundi. The preservation through Kasundi idea is from southern Australia. The recipe is from The Spice Works. Brave as we are, we added Kashmiri chili powder per the recipe. We haven’t had a frost yet but the growing season is waning. #growyourown, #minnesota, #kasundi, #nodig, #tomato, #garlic, #peppers, #preservation, #solarpunk.
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One live cicada sighting in our yard in southern Minnesota. The date is September 12th, 2024. We’ve seen a few empty exoskeletons on plants. Yeah cicadas! #Cicadas, #growyourown, #ducksofmastodon, #minnesota.
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170 grams will add big flavors to several meals, however it’s not much in a pint jar.
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