As many of you know, I have one test for viability of a political solution to any problem. Does it require coercion? If not, I’m listening. If there is a gun required to implement your plan, you are wrong, every time. If it is a good idea, people will do it.
This recipe was born of what was popping in the garden. Seasonal cooking really elevates when we allow the ingredients that ripen together to drive the menu.
Becoming proficient at growing your own food requires many failures. You can research for years, read all of the books, and listen to all of the podcasts, but nothing Improves your skill like killing things, in the garden. This was my experience with strawberries.
The nixtamalization of corn is tribal chemistry at its finest. Etymologically, nixtamal is "ash dough". The idea is that by cooking dried dent corn in an alkaline solution, you turn it from toxic cardboard into food.
We eat a ton of canned salsa, in the winter. This recipe is flexible, so make it as hot, or mild, as you like. Don’t use green peppers, though, because those aren’t food.
If you think about it, all of my recipes begin with the recipe for compost. Every fruit, vegetable, herb, and leaf relies upon compost to transform from seed to food. Without it, there is only sand.
The co founder of permaculture, Bill Mollison, is famous for saying, “You don’t have an excess of slugs, you have a deficiency of ducks!” In other words, as you tweak your systems, the addition of certain birds can be a real game changer.
It has been said that saving seed is a revolutionary act. It is certainly a defiantly human act. At a time when transnational corporations and despotic governments want to dictate what we can plant, the need for a seed saving culture has never been greater.