I’m escaping to the garden in this video and planting my fall garlic. Garlic is one of my favorite crops because it grows well every year, it doesn’t get any disease, and it’s easy to maintain. You just drop the cloves in in the fall after most other stuff is done and it comes up first thing in the spring. By mid July it’s finished up and you can follow it with a second fall crop.
If you couldn’t tell, this footage was taken just after the election in November.
The next stage of winemaking for my homegrown grapes is racking, when you decant the wine must off the lees. The wine is getting clearing with each racking and this will get most of the leftover yeast out of the wine. I share a little trick for cleaning out your tubing that I’ve found useful.
This is the next in the series on making feta cheese on a homestead scale from fresh raw cow’s milk. In this video we add the rennet and set and cut the curd. This is the fun chemistry part of the process where the milk transforms into something else. I also talk a little about raw milk products and why they are so hard to come by in our economy.
This is the first in a series of videos making feta cheese with raw milk from our local dairy farm. If you want to make cheese on a larger scale, this is an easy way to do it without having to set up a warm water bath or having a heated jacketed stainless steel vat. It’s all about the transfer of heat from one place to another and then keeping the heat where you want it. There are easier ways to do it than what they tell you in the cheesemaking books.
Throughout the season I took footage of harvesting various crops, and this is the video montage of those harvests. I show you the course of the season ticked off in vegetable and fruit harvests, from strawberries to fall cauliflower.
I took little break from the mudroom when a local hunter dropped off a deer for me. It takes a little time to process, but it’s a bounty of venison for me and Banjo. This is another foodie video focused on all local food, which is not only more sustainable, but tastes so much better.
