Posts tagged as: how-to

How To Make A “Flax Egg” For Vegan Baking – The RIGHT Way

October 29th, 2011 - posted under: The Food » Recipes

Vegan baking can initially seem intimidating, but really, it’s not so different from the standard procedure that you probably grew up on. For the most part it’s just a simple series of 1:1 substitutions, like plant milk for dairy milk and vegan butter for dairy butter. And eggs? What of them? In vegan cookbooks everywhere, [...]

Homemade Fortified Plant Milk

October 24th, 2011 - posted under: The Food » Recipes

Monday seems to be turning into recipe day, so this week I’ll continue the trend with something extra special. It’s super easy and super practical – in fact, it’s kind of like my DIY Green Powder in so much as I’m surprised that I’ve never seen it done before! When Waits was first starting solids [...]

Guest Post: Herb Propagation Three Ways

September 26th, 2011 - posted under: Furthermore » Guest Bloggers

My favorite guest posts are the ones where I learn something totally new; double points if it’s something I’m dying to know, and triple bonus if I’m sure I’ll be putting it to use immediately! So when this amazing submission by Adrienne showed up in my inbox, I could barely contain my excitement. This is [...]

The Potato Tower Project, Redux

August 25th, 2011 - posted under: The Farm » Flora

A few years back, I grew potatoes in stacks of tires. It worked out all right for a first attempt, and come fall I had a modest harvest of magnificent taters. This project appealed to me on many levels. Of course, I just love to garden, period. But I also work with a pretty small [...]

DIY Homemade “Green Powder”

August 22nd, 2011 - posted under: The Food » Recipes

Oh, you guys. You know that feeling when you stumble upon something so rad, so essentially, perfectly relevant, so flippin RAD-TASTIC that you actually go past the point of peeing-in-your-pants-excited and just sort of sit back and sigh and shake your head? Yeah. Like that. When most people think about food preservation, they’re focused on [...]