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Category: Food
Persimmon Pulp
Now that the frost has sweetened the persimmons and seeds have been cut for winter forecasting, it is time to make pulp. Pulping is a problem. Wild persimmons are small and full of seeds. I have tried several methods none of which are satisfactory. The Juice Mate clogs, a colander smears the pulp around inside…
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Making Herb Butter
Five Feline Farm produces not only vegetables and fruit but an array of herbs to complement any dish. Unfortunately, the growing season is coming to a close in Central Illinois, so it is time to pick some herbs to be held over for winter use. Herbs can be dried and stored in glass jars or…
Beneficial Weeds
A new look at weeds A weed is a weed is a weed. Except when it is a useful tool around the Farm. We look at weeds differently now that we are living in the country and striving to be more sustainable. Weeds as food Certain weeds with attractive flowers are visited by bees collecting…
Eat Your Landscape
At Five Feline Farm we eat our landscape. It’s not what you think. We are not grazing on grass or nibbling the bark off trees. But there are a lot of things we do eat from the land. Wild Things Black raspberries and blackberries are abundant. In fact these are so plentiful, we have had…