Judith Browning

Do your little bit of good where you are;
it's those little bits of good put together
that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

we are relieved to see your post here Bogdan having followed recent events in Ukraine...and good to know all of your work has paid off although so sad it was ever necessary.

prayers for an end to the bombing and for you and friends and family to have the opportunity to live a peaceful life.

s. lowe wrote:Just want to say that Tea Lab is a local business for me and the owner, Luke, is a great dude. They do very good work and have great customer service.

thank you s.lowe!!!
that is very reassuring as I hesitate to buy online from a company I've never used before.

thank you Ben!
that's exactly what I was needing to hear.

Is your 50 gallon brew done in a barrell?
I was hoping we could keep up with a 5 gallon amount more easily and just keep making it more often.

Not sure if a five gallon bucket qualifies as ' minimal straight sided'?
...maybe it's small enough to not matter?

"When your way doesn't work,
don't be disheartened.
You must be willing to try another way.
A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently.
It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used."

Iyanla Vanzant

I'm buying an aerator for making weed/compost tea in a 5 gallon bucket.

Has anyone tried one from this company?

Compost Tea Lab

https://www.composttealab.com/

https://www.composttealab.com/store/p4/Basic_Compost_Tea_Brewer_Kits.html

Steve rinses/washes rice when he cooks....I do not when it's my turn (every other lunch).
We only eat organic brown.

We do rinse beans, sometimes lentils.
Never wheat or oats or buckwheat....so why rice🤔

We have gone back to cooking the rice in a large amount of water and draining rather than an exact ratio of water to rice.

"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions:
'When did you stop dancing?
When did you stop singing?
When did you stop being enchanted by stories?
When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'"

Angeles Arrien
(December 25, 1940 – April 24, 2014) was a Basque-American cultural anthropologist, educator, author, lecturer and consultant,
best known for her book The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Healer, Teacher and Visionary.

Benjamin Dinkel wrote:Nice job Judith. Those are some tasty looking tempeh logs.
Who do you make all that for?

that's just one batch cut into pieces from a 9"x14" pyrex baking dish 'cake' so not so much for the two of us.   we have two pieces each for a meal and another two if there's company so the whole 16 piece batch only lasts 3 or 4 meals...I try to stretch to two weeks.

I've tried to get ahead so I could share with family and even sell some but we like it and tend to eat whatever I make.

fresh out of the incubator ready to freeze!
I go for 30 hours and push that a bit to get more sporulation  for flavor but not so far as to develop an ammonia flavor/odor.

Trying to up my production to twice a week but between the soak and boil and ferment each batch can take 3-4 days and the incubator will only hold one batch at a time.