“Eat your yogurt” is now widely recognized as healthy advice. So our our new video about how to make yogurt can not only save you money, but boost your well being. According to the University of Michigan Integrative Medicine department, yogurt “can help re-establish a healthy bacterial balance in the digestive tract that may have been disrupted by poor diet, illness, or medications.” The reliable site WebMD agrees that the active cultures in yogurt can improve a range of gastrointestinal…
You can make your own yogurt and yogurt cheese easily. In our new video Tricia makes yogurt in her kitchen using her Excalibur dehydrator as the heat source. We have frozen Yogurt Culture available and a Gourmet Home Dairy Cheese Kit to help you prepare yogurt at home. Just take three more steps and you can have yogurt cheese as well. Choose any kind of milk (cow, goat, sheep) for your yogurt and yogurt cheese. Decide if you want to use non-fat or whole milk, or something in between. Customize the…
You can grow Goji berries in your home garden instead of buying berries imported from overseas. Goji berries grow well in containers and in your garden soil. In our new video Tricia plants them both ways.…
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Have you ever massaged a persimmon? Hoshigaki massage is one way to preserve persimmons, and enhance their sweetness too. There are many ways to preserve persimmons. In our new video Tricia talks about…
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December 20, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Reward someone who gardens hard all summer long—help them preserve the harvest with this water-bath canner bursting with canning tools, jars, and a starter book. You might get some jam in return.…
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Spice up any cook’s life with this stainless colander that also works as a harvest basket. Toss in seeds for herbs and edible flowers, mix the latest garden-to-table cookbooks and kitchen gadgets—and…
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Just a few steps will take you to your very own homemade goat cheese! Tricia milks goats and shows you how to prepare homemade goat cheese in our new video. Tricia milked Aurora and then they went for…
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Add mixtures of herbs and spices to your homemade goat cheese, and create signature flavored goat cheeses for each season. In our new video on making goat cheese Tricia starts off by milking the goats…
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In our video on making cider, Tricia shows how to crush apples with our crusher to create pomace, and then extract cider from the pomace. What to do with that leftover pomace, full of apple skins, pulp,…
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Do you have a favorite apple? Would you like to make your own apple cider with your favorite apple as the only ingredient? Surprisingly, that would not taste very good. Create the best apple cider with…
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Someone’s in the kitchen with garden writers Margaret Roach and Gayla Trail— It’s harvest time and we’re crazed canners (and freezers and dryers). Roll up your sleeves, wipe down…
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Canning green and wax beans together makes a beautiful jar for a gift, or your pantry, and an appetizing dish to serve. Wax beans and green beans are in the same family, so the processing time will be…
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By heating the milk above 120 degrees you pastorize it and lose all of the benefits of raw milk. We get great results (without the dry milk) by heating the milk between 90 and 100 farenheit and leaving it in the dehydrator or warm place at the same temperature for 24 hours. For your health’s sake make sure to use GMO free and rbgH free milk.
Eric Schwandt Says:
Oct 28th, 2011 at 9:19 am
Ooops. Correction on the above post. The initial warming of the raw milk is 115 degrees and then it is kept warm between 95-100 for 24 hours.
LindaJasmine Adeniran Says:
Apr 9th, 2012 at 2:25 am
I don’t have a dehydrator so where should i put the yogurt it in order for it to set?