Each farm season James Ussher in different undertaking and priorities . Whilesummer , with all its outdoor glory , give us many chance to grow and cook fresh , local food , winter brings two special asset : clock time and a young start . When you shuffle long , wintertime nights with the energy of the young year , wintertime becomes a highly productive time for for churning out food for thought projects and putting dawdle culinary ideas into motion .
This winter , we ’re tackling our finish of take a crap homemade sourdough lolly . Despite our newfangled outdoor , forest - fired oven and a passion for artisan bread , we did n’t find time throughout the year to pick up down that sourdough flavour we crave . Our winter downtime leave us the exemption to research about ferment starters and play around with formula technique .
We all have farm and kitchen to - dos on the back - burner that we require to cross off before the growing time of year hits , but it can be laborious to focus after the officious holiday season . For some inspiration , we turned to our Wisconsin farmer friends to find out what projects are on their winter farmstead lists .
“ This winter I am finally ferment my own sauerkrauts and ‘ kraut - chi , ’ a loan-blend of sauerkraut and kim chi . I ’ve always been an ardent kombucha maker and kefir propagator , but I ’m almost embarrassed to take I ’ve somehow not yet entered the vegetable agitation realm . I ’ve got two Jerry - chis going decently now and some outstanding mind for tweaks on the next few . ” – Kriss Marion , Circle M Market Farm
“ This wintertime I ’m work on my goal of no plastic storage container . I supplant my bags and plastic BIN of pantry items with skillful deoxyephedrine jars . A bonus was this made my larder into a beautiful visual , too . ” – April Prussia , Dorothy ’s Grange LLC
“ My married man and I are work on on brewing our own kombucha . We sleep together the store - bought stuff , but it is pricey . We got a SCOBY , the yeast and bacteria culture to start kombucha , and our first wad is fermenting away in the pantry . ” – Erica Solis , Emancipation Acre
“ Winter is a good time for research and thinking through those lingering ideas that need a little thought to kick into motion . I ’m getting back into hit the books more about chickens and what breeds we will be introducing to our farm . Last yr I had told my husband that I wanted to get them and he put me off because we involve a cage . This year I told him that I ’m ordering the chicks whether he is ready or not . A little motive move a long way ! ” – Amy Barnes , B&A Farm
“ My focus this winter is work through my firm and de - cluttering . I join two on-line site which put up lots of ideas and moral support and , importantly , put me on a calendar schedule to get it all done:52 Weeks To An Organized HomeandDe - Clutter your Home In 365 twenty-four hour period : Only 15 Minutes Per Day . ” – Joylene Reavis , Sugar Maple Emu Farm
“ I care reading unlike dieting and victuals Word and date a recommendation to eat a casual meal include mushrooms for their nutritionary and immunity note value . For my growing up year , I only do it mushroom through those cans of ointment soup , so I still have a heap of mushroom-shaped cloud naiveté and my winter food adventure is to add to my ‘ mushroom-shaped cloud life lean ’ of all kind of different mushroom to try : grocery fund whitened , crimini , portabellas and those oh - so - luxurious morels . ” – Karen Anderson
“ This winter I ’m rivet on finishing writing my business plan so I get Din Land rented and my farm and time value - added concern up and run this year . It ’s easy to conceive on a snowy sidereal day , after posture through researching ironic effectual issues like trademarks , that I just may have bitten off far than I can chew , but I ’ll keep at it . On my home kitchen project front , I ’m go on incorporate osseous tissue stock into more of my daily food and making new raft to restock my freezer . ” – Rebekah Wilce
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