Tag: ferment
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How to ferment whole grains for chickens
Like fodder and sprouting, fermenting grain is an excellent way to improve the health of your chickens while saving yourself some money.
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KSF… My favourite!
So what’s a KSF? It’s my name for one of my favourite, most economical dishes… ‘Kitchen Scrap Ferment’. It’s just chopped vegetable leftovers after a couple of meals fermented in a salt solution, but ‘KSF’ sounds pretty cool. So… How do I make it?… It’s an ‘anaerobic’ (without oxygen) process using anaerobic bacteria. That means…
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My super cheap fermentation indicator
Sometimes, you just don’t have the gear. I lost my airlock the other morning… It’s somewhere around but will probably turn up along with all those misplaced pens… I was making Beet kvass – a delicious, easy to make ferment. So… I got to thinking how to make an airlock, then realized I didn’t need…
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Kombucha top up
Today’s the day for feeding the kombucha. For those that don’t know, Kombucha is a living colony of bacteria and yeasts that turns tea and sugar into a healthy, nutritious, tasty drink. We do what is called a ‘continuous ferment’, which is where you add the new food to a large container where all the…
