We are honored to have a guest blog from Linda Conroy of Moon Wise Herbs. She teaches classes in Wisconsin on all sorts of self sufficiency topics from how tomake soaps and lotions, to cheese, to brooms. This week she will be discussing our favorite food here at Dog Island Farm. Cheese! ———————————————————— Many of us…
Ever notice how sometimes you’ll learn about something for the first time, and then suddenly it’s EVERYWHERE? You might have never heard of it before, but now your grandma’s bringing it up at the dinner table, there’s a guest speaker about it on NPR, and someone’s posting about it on facebook. All in the same…
Even if you have just one plant, zucchini can take over. So what to do with all that squash? Well, I have a great recipe for making zucchini into bread and butter style pickles*. What you will need: 14 cups diagonally sliced zucchini 1/2 cup pickling/canning salt Cool water 6 cups white vinegar 4 cups…
I needed to make yogurt this weekend. I pulled out some clean quart jars only to find they all smelled like pickles or tomatoes. From previous experience I realized that you NEVER make yogurt in jars that were once used for canning pickles, tomatoes or any high acid food because the taste transfers to the…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
