Sometimes, I catch myself buying something that I am very capable of making myself. And, when it suits me, I teach myself how to make that thing so I never have to buy it again if I choose not to.

I have been playing with peach ferments since we set up The Peach and this particular one is spectacular

A shrub is a delectable combination of fruit, herbs, vinegar and sugar, which forms a concentrate with which you can do many tasty things.

The specific origins of the switchel, a haymaker’s drink, are fuzzy but the drink, itself, is anything but that.

Allium ursinum, also known as wild garlic, wild ramsons, bear garlic, onion stinkers or devil’s posy (depending on the extent of your fondness for allium family herbs) is an abundant and delicious herb.

I have been making fire tonic for my family for years now. I make apple cider vinegar myself and this forms an amazing living solvent, which then extracts constituents from the herbs I soak in it.