YOGURT!: How to make it and yogurt cheese

Making yogurt in our home kitchens is an easy feat, part of reclaiming the mysticism of food production. Indeed, it’s so easy, we must ask ourselves: why did we ever stop? Yogurt is of the oldest known ferments, and certainly one of the yummiest. Yogurt contains active live cultures of bacteria, collectively known as “lactobacilli,” [...]

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MAKE YOUR OWN LAUNDRY DETERGENT

Making your own laundry detergent is easier than making soup! It is also way cheaper than buying detergent from a store. If you do not have a car, you will not miss hauling laundry detergent home on the bus or by bike. You will not miss lugging large plastic jugs out to the curb for [...]

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RADICAL HOMEMAKERS TALK RECAP: “The home as a space of production and not consumption”

This past Thor’s Day Ernistine Cabins and I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Shannon Hayes, author of “Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture,” sponsored by Weston A. Price Foundation and Just Food. A packed house, decent Q&A, and a panel consisting of a radical mom homesteader, mystic herbalist, urban dumpster [...]

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RADICAL HOMEMAKERS: We’ll be there, will you?

Do you ever come across something that speaks so strongly to your passions that you can hardly contain your excitement? Well, that’s exactly how We Revelers felt when we got an email regarding the upcoming talk and book signing by Shannon Hayes, author of “Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture.” When we saw [...]

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