Julian Hoskins

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from my understanding vinegar mother feed on alcohol to produce vineger, so first you will have to make juice from your apples and ferment it.
I have accomplished this without a juicer by chopping and blending apples into a mush, running the mush though a flour press, then squeezing the juice out of the mush by putting it in a cheesecloth pouch.

after i fill a jug i add a little yeast and wait a few weeks for fermentation to finish.

after you have cider you will need to try and harvest some wild vinegar mother, ive heard the best way to do this is to put some sugar water mixed with yeast into an old water bottle and hang it under a tree and wait for flies to swarm it, after a while there should be dead bugs and a white web type mold, gather and wash this mold off, it is vinegar mother, it will produce vinegar.
Place the vinegar mother into your fermented apple cider and wait until it tastes right, then strain it and repeat for more.


I have never gone as far as producing vinegar myself yet so do not take my words as expertise, this is what i recall reading.

Look up green dean on youtube, he has a video on this.
12 years ago
This is my first post on this site or any forums site in a long time, i enjoy this website.

Anyway during a foraging trip near a local river with my little brother we ended up walking along the riverbank observing how low it was and noticing the hundreds of clam and muscle shells scattered about when it occurred to me that their shells are made up mostly of calcium and they little ones are very easy to crush into a dust So we gathered a grocery bag full and took them home, washed them and crushed them. ever since i have been using this power as a substitute for vermiculite and perlite in all applications, it would also be a good mineral supplement for gardens. I am soon to build an aquaponic setup and instead of using clay pellets i plan on gathering alot of these shells and crushing them down to a gravel, since calcium is a major missing nutrient in most aquaponic setups.

These shells could be used for so many different things the possibilities are truly endless, and harvesting them is as simple as going to your local river and walking the banks. Does anyone else here have experience with using shells for anything besides decoration? Anyone out there have any other clever uses of them?
12 years ago