A deep litter system is a great way to get other garden dwellers to do all of the work of preparing compost and mulch.
Deep litter
Spirulina… almost ready to eat!
it's been a long road but the Spirulina culture is almost ready to harvest...
Spirulina bounces back
The Spirulina has come a long way and now it's time to make a backup culture.
Fish guts soup
A great way to convert smelly scraps into odourless fertilizer
Multi tasking to the max
A big part of sustainability and permaculture, if not just trying to grow food in a small space, is getting multiple results from one thing and our laundry bench has evolved into an example of this which ticks the boxes for at least the first three of the permaculture principles and probably a couple more. …
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 …
Making a LAB culture from Yakult
You've all probably seen my other posts on culturing Lactic Acid Bacteria or LAB (sorry, not your sort of LAB, Athena). We culture the little fellas for our Bokashi setup. Today I thought about trying a different approach...culturing the bacteria from Yakult. For folks who don't know, Yakult is a health drink made mostly from …
Tasty cheese, a byproduct from the Lactic Acid Bacteria process. Mmmmm!
ligayagarden cooking fermentation bacteria via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpltf4iFJU0/
