Tag Archives: Slow food
Sugar production, part 2: sorghum syrup
Around the same time we started playing around with sugar beets we also discovered sorghum syrup. Sorghum species are cultivated worldwide for multiple uses – human and animal feed, alcohol, biofuels, brooms – and some varieties have been bred to … Continue reading
Sugar production, part 1: sugar beets
A couple of years ago we decided that it would be interesting to see if we could produce our own sweeteners. If nothing else, it would surely help us decrease our sugar consumption if we were to rely just on … Continue reading
Backyard chickens: coop
Before we got a flock of chickens we needed housing for them. We have a bandsaw mill and lots of trees that needed thinning at our remote land up in the Sierra, so we went up there to get the … Continue reading
