Kimchi infused with the ephemeral essence of the awakening forest and field. This is the 28th post in the Stacking Functions in the Garden, Food Forest and Medicine Cabinet Series.
Very impressive little recipe!! Your knowledge of the forests and their bounty is amazing in posts of yours I've read lately. I have some ramps I was trying to figure out what to do with, other than the usual of cooking them up with potatoes — never imagined them used for something like this.
That looks amazing. A couple of years ago I made Kimchi from some wonderful Chinese cabbage I grew and it turned out really good. I may try my hand using some of your suggestions in the future. I'm always so excited in the spring/summer when I go to the grocery store and only have to put a few poisonous items in my cart because I'm growing most of the things I need. I usually grow greens indoors in the winter, but haven't for a couple of years and have been regretting that decision. I pulled out all of my indoor growing supplies recently and will grow lettuce, spinach etc indoors this winter for sure. It's so depressing to go to the store and see a 5$ bag of something resembling spinach, bring it home and find it's certainly not fresh and heaven knows what conditions it was grown under. It would be nice to live in a place where there are the types of forests you live in. I live in a high desert with annual rainfall of 12 to 14 inches, so it's hit and miss on the types of things I can find in the wild. But, I try to do my best on my tiny little lot where I have been increasing diversity of things that grow on my lot. I've acclimated several different types of plants that typically don't grow here. About 6 years ago I started some cilantro from seeds I purchased. Took forever to get them going. Now... Oh man! I have cilantro that grows everywhere. Haha. I let several plants go to seed every year and just throw the seeds and the next year they come up. The bees love the flowers. Anyway, beautiful post as always.
I love your Substack SOOOOO much!! And therefore, you, too. ^_^
I really want your BOOK. How can I get it? I'm in the States... Is it available here? Maybe online, like, via a book company such as Borders? or...? I'd better do this soon, b/c I was given a monetary gift, and it might not last very long...
I am glad to hear what I share on here resonates with you so strongly :)
Only place I have not managed to ship my book so far is Russia (during the height of all that "I support Ukraine" virtue signalling social media nonsense when all shipping companies refused to ship things between civilians from here to there). I ended up finding a work around though, good people that wanna grow their own food and give back to the Earth deserve to get the tools and resources they want to empower them to do so, I do not care what region on Earth they are born in, but I digress.. Yes I can ship to the states. :)
Very impressive little recipe!! Your knowledge of the forests and their bounty is amazing in posts of yours I've read lately. I have some ramps I was trying to figure out what to do with, other than the usual of cooking them up with potatoes — never imagined them used for something like this.
That looks amazing. A couple of years ago I made Kimchi from some wonderful Chinese cabbage I grew and it turned out really good. I may try my hand using some of your suggestions in the future. I'm always so excited in the spring/summer when I go to the grocery store and only have to put a few poisonous items in my cart because I'm growing most of the things I need. I usually grow greens indoors in the winter, but haven't for a couple of years and have been regretting that decision. I pulled out all of my indoor growing supplies recently and will grow lettuce, spinach etc indoors this winter for sure. It's so depressing to go to the store and see a 5$ bag of something resembling spinach, bring it home and find it's certainly not fresh and heaven knows what conditions it was grown under. It would be nice to live in a place where there are the types of forests you live in. I live in a high desert with annual rainfall of 12 to 14 inches, so it's hit and miss on the types of things I can find in the wild. But, I try to do my best on my tiny little lot where I have been increasing diversity of things that grow on my lot. I've acclimated several different types of plants that typically don't grow here. About 6 years ago I started some cilantro from seeds I purchased. Took forever to get them going. Now... Oh man! I have cilantro that grows everywhere. Haha. I let several plants go to seed every year and just throw the seeds and the next year they come up. The bees love the flowers. Anyway, beautiful post as always.
I love your Substack SOOOOO much!! And therefore, you, too. ^_^
I really want your BOOK. How can I get it? I'm in the States... Is it available here? Maybe online, like, via a book company such as Borders? or...? I'd better do this soon, b/c I was given a monetary gift, and it might not last very long...
I am glad to hear what I share on here resonates with you so strongly :)
Only place I have not managed to ship my book so far is Russia (during the height of all that "I support Ukraine" virtue signalling social media nonsense when all shipping companies refused to ship things between civilians from here to there). I ended up finding a work around though, good people that wanna grow their own food and give back to the Earth deserve to get the tools and resources they want to empower them to do so, I do not care what region on Earth they are born in, but I digress.. Yes I can ship to the states. :)
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