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Joy Williams
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  • Santa Cruz, CA
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It is a book about cheeses, where and how they are made, the various history of cheeses, and is in my view the most complete cheese book I have ever owned. Bear in mind I make cheese and have a home library of books that number in the thousands.
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MotherLodeBeth, Does that book have cheese recipes, or just talk about cheese?
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As someone who loves helping make homemade mozzarella cheese we are going to give making ricotta (twice cooked) cheese from the whey like they do in Italy. Would love to hear from others who have done this. Also want to recommend a GREAT new book I…
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I agree that a major rethink about yields is needed. This is well demonstrated in the Seed Savers film "Our Seeds ... Seeds Blong Yumi" where they talk to a coffee grower who is cultivating new varieties of Coffea arabica as well as Coffea robusta.…
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Where do you live and garden?
About 5 miles north of Santa Cruz, on 32 acres
How long have you been growing food?
forever!
Dream garden travel destination:
here, when my garden is what I want
Favorite foods:
Tomatoes, chiles, garlic, cheese, homemade bread, homebrewed beer

It's raining today. I have to wait a weekend before I can do my intense tomato planting regime. That should be interesting.

Just added a Greenhouses discussion group.

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Ted Kennedy, Rest in Peace

The Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy, has finally succumbed to brain cancer at 77. Very sad news, he did all that he could to secure health care for all. He accomplished a lot of positive things for this nation, including getting the right for young people to vote at the age of 18.



His life was colorful, but he was an absolutely stellar example of a person who fought for the common person, even th… Continue

Posted on August 26, 2009 at 3:00am — 3 Comments

Joy Williams

Preserving Food: Using the Tools at Hand

Hey there folks!

We had enough cucumbers and zucchinis ready to pickle them this last weekend, so we went ahead and did so.

Both Tom and I thought about the fact that we have this giant brew sculpture that Tom uses for brewing and it would probably work to boil all the jars in a hot water bath rather than do two batches, which was more than likely with our rather smallish ability to do so on the stove.

Here's what we did:

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Posted on July 23, 2009 at 4:30am — 9 Comments

Joy Williams

OK i'm just gonna blather, no agenda, trip to Italia

How is everyone? I'm doing pretty well.

I have great news, I'm going to Italy soon (Sept), we have an all expense paid trip to this romantic country. I will definitely be looking at their gardening and their sustainability. It's only 3 days though. I would love to have a lot more, but this is paid by a company that's bringing us over so though I already asked Tom to ask if I can come, I can't ask more! So only three days in Italy.

But that's ok, I probably wouldn't have even gotten the chance… Continue

Posted on July 7, 2009 at 11:48pm — 8 Comments

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Interview with the Producer of Food, Inc., on PBS

You all will want to watch this.

PBS doesn't offer an embed feature, so I'm doing it the old fashioned way, linking it.

Posted on July 7, 2009 at 11:30pm —

Joy Williams

Ok, Mother Jones mislead me

and a lot of other people about the White House Lawn. Here was the original article. And it had me alarmed. The Mother Jones article this derived from though is exceedingly misleading.

This is very upsetting to me, and I'm disgusted with them.

I used to work on lead issues, but that was 15 years ago and I haven't kept up. 93 parts per million is NOT high.

Here's the… Continue

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At 6:30am on January 17, 2010, husseinxp said…
hi,joy
do u knew some information about the lunar calendar?
thank u
hussein
At 9:00pm on January 16, 2010, Joel LeGrand said…
Hi Joy,
I seem to remember you had a Discussion called "Jo makes the slow go". Did I dream this or can you tell me where to find this. thank you.
At 6:25am on January 12, 2010, Maggie said…
Hi Joy,
Great to see you online again, what is the weather like in your part of the world.
We had a heatwave last weekend but is is lovely and cool now and we had some rain today. We are picking all our summer veggies and making chutneys and weaving baskets with watsonia leaves.
Cheers maggie
At 3:07pm on January 2, 2010, Anna Bryony said…
Hello and happy new year. This is chibi-anna-chan --- I just decided to change my name from that old nickname to this *nod*

I hope to be around here more this year, take care!
At 8:22pm on October 30, 2009, Joel LeGrand said…
Hi Joy,
In Backyard Kitchen Herbalists Discussion Rosemary, Sunrays said her rosemary dies every year. Can you help with your garden wisdom.
Thank you.
Happy Holidays.
At 4:25am on September 13, 2009, RawZi said…
You're welcome. I had no idea someone was harrassing this social network, I never saw them. I have gotten under stress from people acting cruelly online before. Maybe I made a mistake in response too in those cases, IDK. We just do our best under any given circumstances.

Thank you :)
At 9:42am on August 10, 2009, mario olarte dela cruz said…
i know i will learn a lot about kitchen gardening in this website and hopefully from you and your friends here. thank you! :)
At 9:23am on August 10, 2009, mario olarte dela cruz said…
thanx for the add,,
can i have a lesson on how to plant tomatoes upsidedown? pls ma'am.
At 9:52pm on July 12, 2009, Gillian said…
Joy,
I just noticed your comment - I am signed onto chat now (I think)
At 7:34pm on July 12, 2009, Gillian said…
Hi Joy I just added a link to my blog on blogspot which shows the progress of the garden since December. I think this might be a better way for me to post photos
 
 

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yes - the pods are quite tough. We only ate the peas inside and we always ate them green although many Indian people dry them. They are known as toovar dhal in Gujerati or tuvaram in Tamil and there are lots of recipes for them dried. Just google to…
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Mary, so you always shell them? I am entirely in the dark with these, and no more flowers :(... Did you only cook the peas fresh or did you leave some to dry? I posted a photo of the HUGE luffa I found, and there are lots more making an appearance -…
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How lovely - I guess your weather must be good for tomato growing! Is it still so hot down there?
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Hi i just wanted to ask, I know it is still cold and i want to know what i can grow in the garden that would be organic and as close to the original foods? How do i find seeds for these foods? When do i start growing? Can i start seed in the house?…
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Hi Gillian We used to grow Pigeon Peas in Natal (north coast) and cooked them with lots of tomato, onion, chilli = and garlic. They can make your hands really black when you peel them so wear gloves. They are worth it though as they are delicious.…
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I have a nice sega palm. It grew a strang thing in the middle which I now understand is the way it makes seeds. So I have a female plant.   I would like to use the seeds and grow more, but I don't have a male Sego Palm plant.    I suppose there is n…
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Forum Policy

Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.

I would be happy to hear any comments you may have.  This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.

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Climate maps

Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..

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Created by Ian Sep 12, 2008 at 6:20pm. Last updated by Ian Apr. 14, 2009.

Recipes, Recipes, Recipes

Hi Everyone,  I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.

If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.

They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!

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AK - Alaska               AL - Alabama              AR - Arkansas
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HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST

Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.

 

 

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I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but

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A Note about Notes

I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.

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