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I'm new to this site but your message caught my eye. I have never heard of making wine from some of those things you have mentioned...how creative. Have you ever tried making Mead? It is made with honey. I started a company,Honey Glow making t...
We made pumpkin wine that tasted like turpentine when it got to the bottling stage.....3 years later it's terrific! I'm going to have to try the zucchini, I always have too many. We made a tropical wine concoction a few years ago that was really g...
"however you can..."...what a great answer! Reminds me of when I tried to get the husks off the rice I grew one year. I think, though, that juicing apples will be easier, even if the person whacking those apples will get a bit stickier.
Thanks!
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You get the juice however you can get the juice. Fresh juice is better/different than cooked juice. We're just not accustomed to the taste of wine from cooked juice. You can use a kitchen juicer for frest juice, but it takes a bit of work to get e...
I think people use a special press. I only know because I have read the blog of the Deliberate Agrarian, who has written about his Whizbang Apple Press. A link to his writing about the press is in the sidebar on the right side of his front page.
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We've been working on this for a while, so I'm gonna say we make a high proportion of what we use. I make almost all our bread. I make cheese. DH has made my cheese forms and cheese press. We garden and can a lot of the produce. We have dairy goat...
First off, let me say that I am NOT an expert at soap making. I've only been doing it for a couple months. There are many resources much better than me. I have been learning a lot from a couple of yahoo groups: soapmaking101 and soap_makers.
My s...
I have goats. Currently I only have two milk does (and one of them not due to freshen until next month), but I also have two nice little doelings. My biggest doe (180# saanen) is due to kid next month, and she is big as a house right now. She has ...