Episode 7: Fermenting Garden Excess

Untested (by me) poke remedy to poison ivy: http://duplin.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/cookingcorner/pokeweedcure.htm

Wild things we are eating this week:

1. Blackberries
2. Daylilies
3. Gathering lots of leaves for teas: sasafrass, mint, bee balm, blackberry leaves

What we are preserving this week:

1. Corn
2. Jams
3. 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

1. Vegetables
2. Salt
3. Vessel: Jar, crock, anything really just no metal or plastic
4. Wood spoon or other tool to help you push it down
5. A way to weigh the veggies below the liquid (NWEdibleLife)
6. Cool dark place

Troubleshooting

• White scum
• Black scum
• Off smells - fermentation smell or baby poo?

Song of the Episode: Suicide by Sauce