Kitchen Garden

Wood Fired Ovens

December 1, 2006

Did you know that The Kitchen Garden Company builds Wood Fired, Masonry Ovens? Don’t worry, most people don’t. Nevertheless, we have built them and know a great deal about their history and use. Here is a short video about our first oven: Technorati Tags: woodfired oven, brick oven, masonry oven, baking, cooking, alan scott, kitchen [...]

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Bokashi Ball Experiment

July 3, 2006

The Japanese have been using Bokashi Balls for a number of years to clean up contaminated waterways. Consisting of Bokashi–an microbial inoculated wheat bran–Effective Microbes, Molasses and a special ceramic powder which helps reflect infrared radiation, Bokashi Balls are reported to help clear sludge and slime up and reduce toxin levels. Our own Kitchen Garden [...]

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Scenes from the Farm

June 6, 2006

Here’s a little video I shot yesterday to introduce to some of the animals here on the farm. Technorati Tags: youtube, farming, farms, kitchen garden, podchef, animals, chickens, sheep, steer calf, video

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Cured Meats

May 22, 2006

My Pancetta and Guanciale are finally done! Seven days in dry cure and two weeks hanging in the salty spring breeze by the bay–I can’t wait to begin cooking with them. These went into the curing cupboard the day the Chorizo came out. When I took these out I put a Wiltshire Cured Ham in [...]

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Gastrocast #58

May 12, 2006

This week’s Gastrocast is out–the cooking show about “food, cooking and the politics of what we eat”. Apart from talking about things going on with the company, the island, and the garden we cook two Rhubarb dishes–A Rhubarb & Sweet Cicely Fool, and Grilled Pork Chops with Rhubarb Cumberland Sauce. It’s spring turning into summer, [...]

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Summer is here

May 4, 2006

Spring appears to have given away to summer and we are left scrambling to plant everything to take advantage of the hot weather. All the tomatoes, eggplants, chillies and basil have been planted in the polytunnel and the average temperature in there is 85 degrees F. Outside it has hit 70 degrees F. here today [...]

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Sprouts!

February 28, 2006

Outside, the weather has been alternately, bitterly cold and rainy. The other night we had a violent gale which left us without much sleep. Between worrying about the power going out and having to find somewhere to move the baby chickens in to where it was warmer (it was about 36 outside) and whether the [...]

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Polytunnel Stage II

January 22, 2006

Over the past week I’ve had a bit of a chance to work on the polytunnel. Now that the seeds have arrived there is more incentive than ever to move the project along. This past weeks efforts have included adding a baseboard along the outside, beginning to frame in doorways, anchoring the ribs to the [...]

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Seed Order

January 12, 2006

Our Kitchen Garden seeds are ordered and on their way. We order from two catalogs each year to get a selection, and we’ve never had a problem with the seeds. We also like both of the company’s because the seeds they sell work very well in our Maritime Pacific Northwest Climate. The companies are Territorial [...]

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