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Organic Cooking Solar Cooking   Making Pickles & Sauerkraut All-Natural Baby Foods   Organic Cooking The Organic Kitchen ...nice listing of organic recipes... All About Tempeh....Tempeh is a fermented food made by the controlled fermentation of cooked soybeans with a Rhizopus mold (tempeh starter).... Veggilicious recipes and more Vegan Recipes ...from The Vegan Kitchen ( This is a very nice collection of Vegan Recipes ) Making Homemade Tofu ....Fresh tofu is a treat that most of us have never had the pleasure of experiencing.  Far from being "tasteless", it has the delicate flavor of, say, ricotta cheese.... Our Plastic Tofu Press Recommended Reading   Making Pickles & Sauerkraut and more.... Zucchini Pickles .....Far too often our garden surprises us and puts up far more of a certain vegetable than we thought possible! Zucchini is such a vegetable - thankfully we've got the best recipes to share when this happens to you.... Learn How To Pickle ...Anything.....very good pickling resource Pick-Your-Own....best web resource there is for learning how to make pickles, Jams and Jellies ,Sauces, Salsa, Butters and Chutneys ,Drying herbs and fruits , canning & freezing methods ...plus a state by state listing of Pick-Your-Own Farms..... Making Sauerkraut ....There's a reason for everything, even if we don't understand it. It's likely the old timers of 200 years ago didn't understand many of the reasons they made sauerkraut except they knew this was a good way of preserving their cabbage through the winter. Today we know that fresh, raw cabbage is very rich in vitamin C. Making Sauerkraut In Jars ....from Sauerkraut Recipes .com..... Making Sauerkraut in crocks and food grade buckets .... Making Homemade Vinegar ....Countryside Magazines info page How to Make Vinegar ....Vinegar can be made from almost anything which contains sugar or starch.  It is made from many different things; fruits, grains, roots even wood Vinegar Types , Methods of Making various vinegars .....amazing collection of vinegar recipes Making Apple Butter .....You think making and canning your own apple butter is difficult?  Well, it used to be!  Until crock pots and slow cookers came along...... Safe Home Cider Making ....University of Maine Cooperative Extension Making Hard Cider ....Cornell University's page on making Hard Cider Mr Liberty's Easy Instructions for Making Hard Cider ..... How' to Build a Cider Press ...Mother Earth News Article. Jeff Donaghue's Cider Press.....This press was designed and constructed by Jeff Donaghue of the Brewery Creek Brewing Company Ray's homemade cider press ....Wonderful website with great info and pictures. All-Natural Baby Foods Making Organic Baby Food....Babies who develop a taste for good wholesome food early on are likely to carry on enjoying the pure, fresh flavors of good nutritious food Wholesome Baby Foods from Scratch .....Making your own baby food is simple, convenient, and can save you money. Nutritionally, it's hard to beat the wholesomeness of foods right from your kitchen. You can feed baby some of your family's regular foods knowing that they are free from the additives and fillers found in some store-bought baby foods.....   Solar Cooking Solar Cooking Archives ...best info on Solar Cooking and Solar Cooker info on this Planet . Lots of great free info and plans for building all sorts of Solar Cookers .... Making and using a solar cooker....very good article by a very serious advocate of solar cooking.... Doug Edwards Solar Cooker recipes and more Tamara's Solar Cooking Pages .... BACK TO TOP   Kitchen Tools Pleasant Hill Grains....Would you like to buy the very best Grain Mills & Fine Kitchen equipment. for less... and enjoy personal service too? At Pleasant Hill Grain we offer the finest kitchen tools, at great prices.... Pressure Cooker Outlet ....lots of pressure Cookers and a great place to pick up parts when you need them.... Using our Nissan Thermal Cooker .....The Mobile Homesteads page about our great non-electric Thermal Cooker Lehman's ....lots of cool stuff to outfit your Homestead Kitchen BACK TO TOP Canning & Food Drying Home Canning ...step by step.... USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning ...very good info on Safe canning techniques Mountain Breeze Farms ...collection of Canning and Preserving Recipes. Backwoods Home Magazine ....article on Solar Food Drying A Review of Solar Food Drying ....from Solar cooking .org great website " The Farms" ...page on Food Drying Drying Foods at Home.....very Good resource . Pick-Your-Own....best web resource there is for learning how to make pickles, Jams and Jellies ,Sauces, Salsa, Butters and Chutneys ,Drying herbs and fruits , canning & freezing methods ...plus a state by state listing of Pick-Your-Own Farms..... BACK TO TOP Sprouting There is simply NO better place to buy a Sprouter or organic sprouting seeds then Sprout People . These are very dedicated people who not only sell their Sprouting Products & Seeds at very reasonable prices they also explain how to Sprout everything you could possibly want .We truly love these people... Building a Self-Watering Sprout cabinet ..... BACK TO TOP Cheese Making Fankhauser's Cheese page ....For learning about Cheeesemaking , Fankhauser's Cheese page is simply the best website we've seen on this subject.....we use his great info all the time . New England Cheese Making Supply ...has a fabulous collection of Cheese Making Supplies & equipment . The owner has been making Cheese for many years and obviously knows her stuff .... Cheese Making Forums ....lots of good info here... The General Cheesemaking Process ....describes the steps taken in making cheeses at home. Most recipes require all but two or three of these steps. By familiarizing yourself with this general process you will be able to better read and interpret published recipes, make up recipes of your own, and troubleshoot any problems you have BACK TO TOP Home Dairy Hoegger Supply .....We have been providing quality products for goat and small farm owners since 1935.... Lehman's ....Home dairy Supplies Smalldairy.com ....has resources you can use! Established in 1998 to assist small commercial dairies in finding information about on-farm and artisan processing, this site now also serves homesteaders and suburban kitchen cheesemakers and food-lovers seeking sources of wholesome dairy foods and the tools to produce them. Goat Health & Husbandry ....provides a multitude of information on the care and keeping of dairy goats, with an emphasis on a natural and humane approach.  Making Butter ....great butter making info put out by Walton Feeds Making Butter in your Food processor .....easy and quick to make.... Butter Making At Goldenrod Farm ....Butter making is an art that is not practiced often in our busy modern world. The small home farms that used to make their own butter and sell a few pounds to neighbors are mostly gone. In todays fast pace very few people want to be tied to a milk animal that must be milked every 12 hours. We want to show you the process of making butter on our farm, starting with the cow..... Making Your Own Butter ....Making butter is remarkably easy and very satisfying. In recent years the concerns about fats, cholesterol and heart disease have made butter and almost taboo food but I believe that, like most natural foods, in moderation it will do no harm..... Making Yogurt at Home ....Country Living Series Fias Co Farms Yogurt Recipes and more.... Dom's Kefir Making ....contains details explaining the procedure for culturing traditional dairy-milk kefir, including recipes for culturing non-dairy kefir-related beverages How To Make Kefir ...Great explanations and pictures on making Kefir at home... BACK TO TOP   Smoking Fish & Game Some of the Sites listed below use Preservatives ( nitrates ) in the Sausage Making process ...we don't believe in that kind of thing here at The Alternative Energy Guide. We've only listed these sites because we feel they show the Process in good way....just remember .... Europeans for centuries have been safely making the Worlds best Sausages , Hams and the like without feeling the need to pump them full of stuff that doesn't belong there... The Sausage Maker Inc. ...has the best variety of Smokers , Meat Mixers & Grinders , Food Dehydrators , Canners and all sorts of other wonderful Home Preservation Equipment you'll ever see. This is one Amazing Site... Making Salami ....The differences between the various types of salami are due to the kind of meat they contain, the proportion of lean to fat, and the fineness or coarseness of the grind. Salami can be exclusively pork, or be a mixture of pork and beef, but they can also be made with venison or other game meats, poultry, goose, lamb and goat... Homemade Sausage Making recipes ...You don't need a meat grinder / sausage stuffer to enjoy home-made sausage. Just buy ground pork from your butcher and use one of our sausage recipes and make sausage patties...... The 3 Men's Fish Smoking Process ....The following process is for smoke cooking (sometimes, called hot smoking) as opposed to cold smoking...... UC Davis's ...page on Smoking Fish Smoking Meat.com....where you will find over 100 pages of more help, tips, recipes, tutorials, and how to smoke meat information per page than you ever thought possible. Collection Of Old World Recipes ....on Salting , Sausages , pickling meats and a bunch of other techniques put out by members of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism ) BACK TO TOP Beer & Wine Making Midwest Supplies .....Very extensive on-line catalog includes both, home wine making supply and home brew supply. Search favorite wine recipes and beer recipes Brew Your Own .....The How-To Home Brew Beer Magazine How to Brew ...Welcome to How to Brew - the definitive book on making quality beers at home. Whether you want simple, sure-fire instructions for making your first beer, or you're a seasoned home brewer working with all-grain, this book has something for you. How to Brew covers the full range of brewing possibilities - accurately, clearly, and simply. After years of research and refinement, I am happy to present this comprehensive home brewing book to readers online, in its entirety. Home Brew Talk .....Your source for home brewing information. We are a fast growing community of both professionals and enthusiasts..... The Brewery ....a world-wide web server dedicated to providing a comprehensive, high quality, collection of information a bout the art and science of brewing beer Cornelius Kegging System Instructions ...wonderful resource for those who don't to mess around with bottling their beer Discover the Joys of Kegging ....Set up a Simple Home Draft System . Elizabethan Homebrewing ....great Old Time Homebrewing how-to.... Got Mead.com ....your source for Mead Making and Mead Drinking info..... Honey Locator....Many people do not realize the tremendous variety of honey that is available. The Honey Locator, a service provided by the National Honey Board, is a database-driven Web site which allows you to search for honey and honey suppliers in many different ways. Unicorn Unchained Meadery....We are a non-commercial meadery and have no mead for sale. This site is for the benefit of other mead makers, or would-be mead makers and provides an online copy of our brew book... Dandelion wine Recipes .... How To Make Wine Out of Common Household Items ... WELCH'S FROZEN CONCENTRATE WINE..... Mr Liberty's Easy Instructions for Making Hard Cider .... Making Hard Cider ....Cornell University's page on making Hard Cider How' to Build a Cider Press ...Mother Earth News Article. Jeff Donaghue's Cider Press.....This press was designed and constructed by Jeff Donaghue of the Brewery Creek Brewing Company Ray's homemade cider press ....Wonderful website with great info and pictures. Home Distillation of Alcohol .... The Home Distillation Handbook ....very interesting Swedish website BACK TO TOP   Farmers Markets , Vineyards & Food Co-Ops   Farmers Markets Food Co-Ops Vineyards Farmers Markets and County fairs can be really good places to pick up some great bargains on fresh produce and home-baked items... but ,be aware ...these days farmers markets and such are pretty trendy spots where prices can be much higher than you'd find in supermarkets...so shop around. Another good way to find fresh affordable produce is to stop at Roadside Stands and check out what the farmers have to offer. Back when I was a kid living in New Jersey , Pennsylvania and other places out on the East Coast , our family would always stop at the Stands to buy produce and fresh apple cider.... NOTE : we'd really like to hear from anyone out there in cyber-space who knows of other cool Farmers Markets and the like....  send us an email with all the particulars and I'll post it here...Thanks. This is a great USDA site that has a huge database of Farmers Market around the U.S.....with a easy to use click-able regions map. U.S. FARMERS MARKETS Pick-Your-Own.....State By State listing of Pick-Your-Own Vegetable & Fruit Farms WEST COAST OREGON FARMERS MARKET ASSOC. EUGENE OREGON SATURDAY MARKET OREGON COUNTRY FAIR PORTLAND SATURDAY MARKET NEWPORT OREGON FARMERS MARKET OLYMPIA WASHINGTON FARMERS MARKET SEATTLE'S PIKE PLACE FISH MARKETS CALIFORNIA'S CASTRO VALLEY FARMERS MARKET SAN FRANCISCO'S FERRY PLACE FARMERS MARKET EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.... BOULDER COLORADO'S FARMERS MARKET EAST COAST EPHRATA PENNSYLVANIA ...GREEN DRAGON'S FARMERS MARKET KUTZTOWN PA. FAIR KUTZTOWN PA. FESTIVAL Bird-In-Hand, PA Farmers Market (link , Thanks to... Janice & Dean ) Dekalb Farmer's Market....Decatur, Georgia  ( link , Thanks to... Karen the Gypsy ) Root's Country Market & Auction....Manheim, PA  (  link , Thanks to... "WheelEstate " ) Food Co-Ops Here's a Great Link to a Food Coop Database Here's the Link to the Oregon Gleaners ....this is a great organization Vineyards (Organic Wines ) Oregon Cooper Mountain Vineyards Organic Wine Press Washington China Bend Vineyards Badger Mountain Vineyard & Powers Winery California The Organic Wine Works LaRocca Vineyards Frey Vineyards Ltd. HoneyRun Winery Panorama Brewing Company Madonna Estate Winery    BACK TO TOP

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