When I lived in Portland, I paid $10 for a gallon of milk. This wasn’t store bought milk, of course, but raw milk. It came from a farm south of the city—a piece of land leased by two wonderful women, Karyn and Carissa, who kept a couple milking cows and a small flock of chickens. [...]
Archive for the ‘raw milk’ Tag
Why I’ll Pay $10 for a Gallon of Milk 16 comments
How To Make Raw Butter 23 comments
An entry in The Household Economy I love butter. I grew up eating margarine, but those were dark days indeed and I try not to think about them now. Instead, I think about butter, and I eat it. I slather it on toast, on cornbread, on pancakes, on pretty much any sort of baked good. [...]
Considering Butter: A Philosophy of Homesteading 24 comments
An entry in The Household Economy A few months back, I read a Sharon Astyk post in which she wrote about a new cookbook of sorts, Make the Bread, Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese. In the book, Reese engages in a wide variety of food-centered homesteading activities, like making butter and baking bread, making [...]
There are No Vegetarians in a Famine 8 comments
An entry in the How To Be Poor series To better understand the distorted viewpoint of our culture that I wrote about in the last post, I want to talk about food and diet. As I tend to reference my own experiences in these posts, I want to write initially about my own changing diet [...]
The Fermentation Prelude: How to Extract Whey from Raw Milk 2 comments
An entry in The Household Economy My earliest homesteading activities involved food. I think this is common and appropriate; food is basic and elemental, inspiring and accessible. It makes sense within our culture to homestead via food because food is still so capable of connecting us with the earth on a basic level. Despite the [...]
