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Fermenting is a traditional way of preserving foods that creates a delicious and gut healthy end product. Making lacto-fermented veggies (like fermented asparagus) is a great way to use up excess veggies from your garden. Fermented honey garlic can help keep you healthy!

I’m also big on making fermented drinks such as kombucha, water kefir, and natural sodas. And of course there’s mead (honey wine) and other homebrews, like apple ginger beer, that bring us happiness and joy!

Homemade Spiced Pomegranate Wine

Homebrewing wine or mead (honey wine) in small, one gallon batches is one of my favorite things to do. It’s easier than you would think to put together, and is always exciting when it comes time to taste it! This homemade spiced pomegranate wine is a gorgeous deep red color, not unlike red wine, and…

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Filed Under: Beverages, Cook, Ferment, Homebrew

Gift Guide for Fermenters and Homebrewers

I recently gave you some gift ideas for foragers and wildcrafters and for backyard gardeners, and now here’s a gift guide for fermenters and homebrewers! Fermenting is a huge passion of mine, and I love showing people how easy it is. This is going to be a long one because I have many recommendations, and…

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Filed Under: Ferment, Homebrew, Vegetable Ferments

15 Easy Mead Recipes for Beginners

Homemade mead (honey wine) is probably one of my favorite fermented beverages to make. It’s a simple and inexpensive way to produce your own tasty homebrew. I put together this awesome list of easy mead recipes so that you can have access to all of them in one place! Mead Making for Beginners Ebook If…

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Filed Under: Beverages, Ferment, Homebrew, Mead

Fermented Elderberry Honey

When elderberry season is here I want to make ALL the elderberry things. Elderberry syrup is a standard every year for keeping our immune system healthy. Some years if I have a large elderberry haul I’ll made elderberry mead or elderberry soda. But this year I wanted something a little more simple. Ever since I…

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Filed Under: fall favorites, Fall Recipes, Ferment, Foraged Food Recipes, Herbal Infusions, Herbal Remedies, Herbalism, Honey Ferments

Spruce Beer Homebrew Recipe (made with spruce tips)

Homebrewing is one of my favorite things to do, but I especially love it when I can incorporate foraged ingredients. I came across some nice big spruce tips recently, and when I saw them I immediately knew what I was going to make with them: spruce beer! Homemade spruce beer has been something that I’ve…

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Filed Under: Beverages, Ferment, Foraged Food Recipes, Homebrew, Spring Recipes, Winter Recipes

Dandelion Mead Recipe (Dandelion Wine Made With Honey)

Dandelion wine is an old school recipe that has been around for centuries. The yellow petals have a honey-like flavor and they make a delicious wine! I prefer to make dandelion mead, as I feel like it is even more flavorful that way. Mead is simply wine that is made with honey instead of sugar….

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Filed Under: Beverages, Ferment, Flower Recipes, Foraged Food Recipes, Herbal Food and Drinks, Homebrew, Mead, spring favorites, Spring Recipes

Fermented Root Beer: Homemade Soda Made With A Ginger Bug

{This post is sponsored by Mountain Rose Herbs} I wasn’t allowed to drink much soda pop growing up (thanks Mom!), but I did have the occasional root beer when we went out to eat. It was always my favorite with its distinctive flavor that was so different than the regular boring colas. Little did I…

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Filed Under: Beverages, Ferment, Fermented Soda, Herbal Food and Drinks

Fermented Apple Ginger Beer (Made with a Ginger Bug)

Fall is the season for apples, and apples and ginger go together spectacularly. Ever since I first made a ginger bug, I knew that I wanted to make ginger beer with it, as that’s its traditional use. But then I got the great idea to make fermented apple ginger beer, and I knew that was…

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Filed Under: Beverages, Fall Recipes, Ferment, Homebrew

Fermented Elderberry Soda with Ginger and Honey (Made with Wild Yeast)

Elderberry season is always an exciting time. I love watching the local elderberry trees come into flower in the summer, then slowly start producing berries as fall approaches. Fall is by far my favorite season, so this is the beginning of wonderful things to come in my mind! Elderberries are amazing for the immune system,…

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Filed Under: Beverages, Fall Recipes, Ferment, Fermented Soda, Foraged Food Recipes, Herbal Food and Drinks

Kombucha Soap: Natural Face Bar Recipe

Most of us in the fermenting world know all about kombucha, whether we’ve made it ourselves or just purchase it at our local health food store. What I’ve only recently learned is that kombucha is also great for the skin and makes a wonderful soap! It’s also the perfect way to use up any extra…

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Filed Under: Herbal Bath and Skincare Recipes, Herbalism, Homestead & DIY, Kombucha, Soap

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I want to inspire you to live seasonally, become more self sufficient, and protect your health. I share information on foraging and wildcrafting, fermenting and preserving, cooking whole foods from scratch, permaculture gardening, and making herbal products. And that’s just the beginning! Read more here.

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