A place to record my adventures of being a gentle consumer and living more fully, with less stuff.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Independence Days Week #25
Plant something:
- Evening Primrose, mint, Solomon's Seal
- sprouted red clover
Harvest something:
- 2lb 4oz cabbage
- 7oz beet greens
- 5oz chard
- horseradish
Preserve something:
- started new batch of sauerkraut
- made and froze pumpkin puree
- froze fresh, local cranberries
- drying rosemary and sage
- made horseradish honey, vinegar, brandy tincture
- rosemary vinegar
Waste not:
- bought natural soap with no packaging
- made bread
- roasted pumpkin seeds
- reused bags for food storage
- cooked lentils in sun oven
Want not:
- arranged to trade tinctures with a fellow herb student (I'm getting daisy in exchange for lemon balm and motherwort!)
Preparation and storage:
- added canned fruit and bulk raisins to pantry
Physical exercise: yoga three times, walked to library, got lots of biking in
Build community food systems:
- farmer's market
Eat the food:
- beet greens and chard in soup
- pickles and sprouts on a cheese sandwhich
Take the medicine:
- garlic honey
- eggshell vinegar and nettle honey oxymel as mineral supplement
- catnip tea and tincture for gut pain
- plantain tea for chest congestion
- violet leaf salve externally
- comfrey oil externally
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