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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Sauerruben


Sauerruben is fermented turnips. It's similar to sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) but growing a ton of turnips is a heck of a lot easier than growing cabbages. I used the "recipe" from the Joy of Pickling by Linda Ziedrich. I say "recipe" cause there are 3 ingredients, turnips, salt, and caraway seeds. I used my bosch mixer with the food processor attachment to make quick work of the turnips (5 lbs), stirred in 3T of salt and 2 t of caraway seeds and let that sit for a bit. Then stuffed that into a gallon jar and put a ziplock bag with brine (1Q water, 1.5 T salt) in it in case the bag leaks on top, to keep the shredded turnips submerged. Put in a pie plate to catch the overflow. Fermented ~ 1 month. Super good.

This is batch #2. Turnips, rutabaga, beets, carrots. It has passed the overflowing stage but still has a couple of weeks to go.

Friday, May 8, 2015

Chile Flamingo Crops

 these 2 are from the first lake, the rest are from the second lake

 which do you prefer?


 I think I like the extreme crop more

 love this one, cropped slightly, might need to edit this crop still
 these 2 are magic




Garden, 8 May 2015

coastal poppy, crack in the patio

pomegranate

queen of the garden

Hummingbird Nest #2, May 6th

 Presumably the same momma as before, as the nest is once again built into a bicycle chain ring mobile, she is sitting on her eggs at this point (May 6) and they hatched on June 1. you'll notice, though, that this nest wasn't built symmetrically, also the rope is part of it's structural 'integrity', which has repercussions later. Nikon D600 and D7100, mostly 300mm af-s with 1.4x teleconvertor, some 80-400, that i ended up returning to KEH (focused wrong).


onwards and upwards, some really nice sequences and such:
June 1 - June 6
June 8 - June 14
June 15 - June 18

Friday, May 1, 2015

Drought Ag links

on dry farming

osu water use of veg

gardening in drought tips
UC master gardener gardening in drought tips

story about wine grapes in SB county from KCBX

NPR story about SB water use, and one from Shankar Vedantam about water

California report:
11 May about water rights
12 May about Imperial Valley Ag

NPR - SF ugly yard contest