For the past 5 years, our family has been living without running water. Instead, we live with what I have heard referred to as "walking water." In our case, the walking part has been quite literal - walking hundreds of gallons of water in buckets from one place to another.
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Winter Squash Cheesecake Recipe
I love cheesecake, and back in Oregon when we were milking Alpine goats, I made it regularly with our soft goat chevre. I adapted a recipe from Donna Hays, and instead of using ricotta and cream cheese, I just substituted chevre. This winter squash cheesecake recipe is one of the most ...
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Five Foods to Store for Winter
Stocking up on storage crops in the late summer and early fall, and storing them for winter eating is a great way to get local, organic food at a lower cost and higher quality than what you might find in supermarkets. In addition to growing many storage crops in our garden, we like to visit our CSA ...
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How to Preserve Eggplant for Winter Eating
Do you love eggplants as much as I do? They are such a seasonal food, only available in the hottest of summer months, and taste delicious in so many ways - in curries, roasted, grilled, and mixed up in dips and spreads like zacusca or baba ganoush.
They are also a crop that does very well here in ...
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