He has a "normal" job, had the luck to be able to work from home for a good while though. He also does permaculture consulting for others, while tending to and filming his own garden. It's all a matter of priority, even if you only put in an hour a day it builds up as the years go by. One of the aims in a Permaculture garden is to minimise the effort and time needed, you'd be surprised! Just get started, little by little. :)
It's funny, but if you go WAAYYY back to one of my first videos ever, it's called my mission statement video. In that video I mentioned that my mission for this channel was to show people that if a dude with a full time job, a wife, 3 kids, all 3 kids in sports... if this doofus can do it, then ANYONE can do it. The way I teach to make a food forest, the entire goal is to offset the labour to nature. If a food forest is work, then it's not designed or managed properly. In nature there is life and death. Sometimes humans struggle too much to prevent death, and we are constantly taking actions, to save a tree for example. These actions often come with consequences (fertilizing or killing pests for example), and these actions are short signted and cause cascading problems. I mention this in my "how I solved insect problems" video. If a food forest is a lot of work, it's because the human is trying to do too much, and all those actions cause other problems (collapsing insect biome after removing pests for example). Then those consequences cause further problems that must be corrected by further actions, which those actions cause further disturbances which require further action, etc. It's a viscious cycle. Instead if we have a focus on big picture, and all our actions are not to prevent death, but rather to promote balance, then we can escape the cycle. We have pest problems so we plant more flowers and herbs to attract things that want to rip the pests heads off and eat them. Now we aren't solving our pest problem with a drastic unbalanced human action, but instead we employ a few hundred million security guards of predators who work 24/7 for free. Often I look back and wonder how I found the time and energy to do all this. The thing is, and just about anyone who has been "unplugged" and "awoken" can attest to: when you first discover permaculture, you have this passion IGNITED inside of you. This passion burns with the fury of 1000 suns. It's so critical that this fury is channeled into action, or it is wasted. When I first started doing this, I would bring woodchips home from work every single day for 2 years. I had a van at the time. No truck, no trailer. I took the back seats out of my van, put a tarp in it, and literally shoveled woodchips from a new highway clearing (they cleared and chipped trees for a new highway)... shoveled those directly into the van. I'd drive away giddy. My wife was not a fan of her husband throwing woodchips into our nice van. But I had that FIRE in me.... (cont)
...(cont)... It's so important that when you feel that fury flowing through you, that you act on it. "Tom" has that passion now. I can FEEL it. (See my viewer vids videos for who "Tom" is). A food forest when done correctly is a ton of work. But it's all upfront. Once it's established, then nature takes the wheel, and the work is done. Your job is then to harvest the bounty and abundance, and make very minor adjustments. It's not to prevent death, but rather to help nature transition from that death towards where you want it to go next. When I look back, I definitely had these major labour weekends where I got home on Friday and pulled 16+ hour days until I went back to work Monday. But there is no better way to spend a weekend than taking some action that will have permanent ramifications on the rest of your life. Now that the major work is completed, it's almost no work. And looking back, the majority of that work was from many small workings. 20 mins collecting leaf bags after kids hockey on one day. 30 mins scooping woodchips into my van after work the next day. Constant, relentless, chipping away and working towards a bigger goal. Being at a hockey tournament and popping into a nursery on the way home, grabbing some flowers and herbs or bushes on sale, getting home and planting them. I drove my wife CRAZY 🤪 during that phase, and I'm honestly so grateful to her that she had the patience to stick with me in my vision. She thought I completely lost my mind. Here was a guy who hated cutting his grass, and he's going to plants acres and acres of gardens? She honestly thought it was a mid life crisis and that I needed an intervention. Not even joking, it was that crazy in those first years. TEARING up the front lawn, digging trenches and ponds. Dumping HUNDREDS of yards of woodchips all over the place. Just think about how INSANE that looks to the averge person. Especially the digging. LOL. But that wasn't some mid life crisis. That was the firey passion that was ignited inside me, coming out. It just manifested in a very "destructive" way (in terms of tearing apart our beautiful country home front yard). It's just so important to take advantage of that time and that passion. My fire is still there, burning away... this weekend I planted about 1000 trees. I will have a video coming out about saving seeds, taking advantage of windows of opportunities that present themselves very shortly throughout the year. Now is seed collecting opportunity. Hundreds of pear seeds were planted in my old man walking trail. 2 hours of seed collection and planting will have lifetime reverberations in that area. You can have a full time job, kids, wife or husband, other passions also, but what matters is that you focus on channeling passion into action, in an unrelenting way.
Great video. Love science in the kitchen. Hope you do more. Well, for those who don't know what to do with your store bought inferior vinegar ( because you now have beautiful apple cider vinegar on the way) vinegar has many uses particularly if its used following soap, bicarbonate or hydrogen peroxide. Tbs vinegar in a cup of water works as hair conditioner or deodorant 1/2 and 1/2 vinegar and water works as foot fungal treatment 1:1 vinegar to water or bicarbonate mixed with water can be used to remove mould from walls and furniture Vinegar added to the rinse cycle of the washing can work as fabric softener if you have hard water... Clean tiles by wiping them with a bicarbonate water slurry. Go and watch a Permaculture legacy video then squirt tiles with vinegar. All the scum will bubble off with next to no scrubbing Rinse.
Totally agree. What is the point of growing all this if you don't know what to do with it after you have it! Cooking, canning and preserving are essential life skills.
Never thought about adding yeast, I just make the fruit scrap variety using the wild natural airborne yeasts. Last winter I made an awesome Pear and Orange Peel/ Blood Orange vinegar. I make mainly for using for salad dressing/marinades. This fall I used the Pear when processing my first small batch of Horseradish, which should make it aa healthier fermented condiment. I have a Lemon and Grapefruit almost done. Without the added yeast it is a 5/6 month project. My first batch Pear from July 2020 proves that like wine it mellows and improves with age. Thanks for sharing your process it has definitely inspired me to re-evaluate mine.
I produce my own Apple cider vinegar, and also Pear cider vinegar : the process is more than Natural. No need of apple juice, even less "red wine yeast". With proper conditions, fermentation will happen by itself. Atmospheric temperature is Vital : 2 years ago, the weather was bad, cold spring-summer, freezing till june (in north of France) : both vinegars were odorless-tasteless pee, light color without any "mothers" at all. Warmth in a shady space is more than required for best fermentation, without any additional substances, just fruits along a pinch of sugar and generous Sun (august-september, at most as it takes 2 months to create, when fruits fall from trees simply) ....I have so many "mothers" each year that I collect them. Nature does the beautiful job, if not unbalanced so far ! Which is happening more & more
Thank you so much for this information! You are such an inspiration and I really appreciate your honest scientific but practical take on things! I’ve been hoarding some organic apple cider vinegar so I can inoculate my first batch of home made acv, I’m going to have to buy apples as my trees are still to young. :-( but soon! ;-)
Very informative. Thanks for sharing. I’ve made hard cider using store bought apple juice before and it turned out great. I have yet to make acv but it is definitely on my to do list when my trees start producing. I still have to build a scratter and press first though. You should check into that as well so you can do very large batches very quickly with less labor.
I probably should invest in a scatter and press! I could probably make my own, it wouldn't be too hard. Maybe wait for wood prices to come back down!!!!! Or see if I can find some scrap wood and collect it.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I’m considering using a new garbage disposal mounted in an old stainless sink for a scratter. Harbor freight automotive press for a press.
Thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole of bacterial colonization of insect frass and then on to the topic of insect gut microbiota. Lol, I'm not being at all sarcastic--fascinating subjects that have never before crossed my mind!
Hey thanks for this one. I was having the same problem finding a how to video worth a hoot. About how many apples did you juice for that gallon? Were are definitely into apple season here in upper east Tennessee. Thanks a bunch!!🌈❤🌎✌
You seem to have a lot of grass. Why do you use wood chips for mulch and not grass? I have a 10 hectare property in an arid environment but with access to artesian ground water. Would you recommend starting more with planting the trees and plants or should I first work on swales and water systems?
Because then I would be systematically extracting nutrients out of my lawn and it would turn into depleted soil and thus weedy. All the grass cuttings gets mulched and put right back in the spot they were cut, to feed the soil of the lawn. I do take the odd bit of clippings as compost fodder, but try to minimize that. For your last question, if it's ever possible and practical you should always start with earthworks before planting. It gets tremendously harder after planting. I would start with swales and ponds, and then plant into them.
You can use a balloon instead of a bubbler. Just keep an eye on the balloon, and make sure it doesn't overfill after a few days. It could fly off. If the balloon starts getting to full just burp a little CO² out. Do you do anything with the pulp? I've was wondering if it might be good in dough stuff like pancakes or bread.
The balloon can be a good idea also, but I don't really like it. I wanted to control the burp better. Let me explain.... When the gas pressurizes the bottle, if an opening is created, any flow of air is going to always go from high pressure to low pressure. Simply unscrewing the cap and listing for the whistling of gas pressure means that you know exactly where that flow is going. OUT. Then you screw the lid back on just as it's starting to slow down, but before it's over. I now know that zero air got into my batch. That means no possible chance of contamination. Using a balloon is great for adding in a layer of defense against bottle rupture. Worse case the balloon flies off. Zero chance of breaking glass. The downside is that the venting is less controlled. Even opening it carefully, the pressure will equalize very quickly. Dynamically the air pressure flows out, but once it has equalized, there is a kinetic flow, an inertia which sucks more air out of the bottle. You get a small vacuum formed for a microsecond. Then the flow reverses and outside air flows into the jar. This happens faster than a human can react. We then put the balloon back on, but we have a contamination potential. Now, maybe someone can get really skilled at this and can open up such a small vent, and close it before it stops. If you can do that, then do it. I just think it's not worth risking contamination if you are good at manually venting the screw cap and not forgetting to do so. But yeah, that's a long winded way of why I just went with the screw top. Either way, an airlock lid is like 5-10 bucks and I think is well worth it. If it prevents one contaminated batch then it pays for itself 4 times over in one time.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I've made wine with the balloon method before. It was named the same: "Balloon Wine." I might have had to vent it once, and yes you only stretch out part of the balloon from around the neck to partially vent the balloon. It's real easy, and it's less trouble then you're thinking. However the loosened cap method works fine as long a you always do it everyday (at first).
Mostly because my wife wanted me to. You really don't need to. One nice part about having a higher juice content (than say if you just added it all in stage 1) is that it actually cranks up the sugar content. This means more alcohol on phase 1, which then means more esters and phenols, which means more flavor. You can use all parts of the apple, but the more pulp that gets in, the weaker the product will be in the end. It will still be fantastic though. All the cores were planted. So a nice byproduct of coring the apples is that my local community got a few hundred new apple trees in a few decades, all planted out in my local park.
If the SHF really bad, then being able to make alcohol would be more valuable in terms of barter than having gold to trade. I think this isn't just a nice life skill to know, but a really really important thing in terms of so many SHF considerations. Sure there is the barter thing I mentioned, but also, people will be extra vigilant in protecting the person who is making their alcohol. You may get some security benefits out of it also. Yeah, just an all around good skill set to have. One that is very nice when times are good, but one that could be critical when SHF.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy skills and knowledge are way more valuable ways to be a prepper than having a stocked bunker. Not to toot my own horn, but I'm very confident in my ability to single handedly bring a small community to medieval tech plus a few electrical generators made from salvaged parts to be enough to run power tools.
Hi, Keith; Miq here. My smartphone broke (where I watched all your videos) and I lost all my account info because like a nitwit I never wrote down my passwords and such and can't retrieve them. Anyhow, at the end of Dec we will move overseas as I mentioned months and months ago. I have been so busy with the logistics and preparation of that that I haven't been able to keep up with your channel, but I was thinking about you as I "winterized/proofed my garden" for the upcoming year. We'll be back every 10 months to check on things, and it will be interesting to see how much things get out of hand in our absence. I make some homemade vinegars with the simple sugar and water method, but if I can, I might try my hand at making AVC in Lebanon. Will keep you posted if I do. In any case, all the best in the New Year, and I hope to find the time to pop in now and then, even if we are going to be confined to apartment living for the next 4 years.
A few hours after watching this I now have a sausage mill dripping apple slop and a jar filled with apple mush... I already have apple jam and dried apple rings, what will I do with the remaining 20 kilos of apple? More good ideas?
Ah yes, a nice mixture of videos on how to make a food forest and how to use it once you have it, that's great thank you :D From soil to mouth... ... and back again?
LOL 😆 Indeed, I try to add in cooking videos. What is the point of growing all this if you don't know what to do with it!! Cooking is such an important life skill. Cooking, preserving, canning, it should be taught to everyone in school, not just in one class. It's just so important for our collective health.
LOL 😆 I have a long way to go. But thank you, very kind. I'm trying to workout more. My biggest issue is that I still eat like I'm in university and eating 5000 calories for baseball. My family calls me the garbage disposal. I eat healthy but I eat a LOT. Slowly trying to claw back on that too!! Haha or were you talking about Trish? LOL 😆 😂 🤣
I’d love to grow a food forest too but who on earth has enough time to do that. Are you already in retirement sir ?
He mentions in previous video that he has a day job. I'm not sure if that is still the case now however.
"has enough time to do that" you do realize that most of the things in a food forest grow on their own with little to no inputs, right?
He has a "normal" job, had the luck to be able to work from home for a good while though. He also does permaculture consulting for others, while tending to and filming his own garden. It's all a matter of priority, even if you only put in an hour a day it builds up as the years go by.
One of the aims in a Permaculture garden is to minimise the effort and time needed, you'd be surprised! Just get started, little by little. :)
It's funny, but if you go WAAYYY back to one of my first videos ever, it's called my mission statement video. In that video I mentioned that my mission for this channel was to show people that if a dude with a full time job, a wife, 3 kids, all 3 kids in sports... if this doofus can do it, then ANYONE can do it.
The way I teach to make a food forest, the entire goal is to offset the labour to nature. If a food forest is work, then it's not designed or managed properly.
In nature there is life and death. Sometimes humans struggle too much to prevent death, and we are constantly taking actions, to save a tree for example. These actions often come with consequences (fertilizing or killing pests for example), and these actions are short signted and cause cascading problems. I mention this in my "how I solved insect problems" video.
If a food forest is a lot of work, it's because the human is trying to do too much, and all those actions cause other problems (collapsing insect biome after removing pests for example). Then those consequences cause further problems that must be corrected by further actions, which those actions cause further disturbances which require further action, etc. It's a viscious cycle.
Instead if we have a focus on big picture, and all our actions are not to prevent death, but rather to promote balance, then we can escape the cycle. We have pest problems so we plant more flowers and herbs to attract things that want to rip the pests heads off and eat them. Now we aren't solving our pest problem with a drastic unbalanced human action, but instead we employ a few hundred million security guards of predators who work 24/7 for free.
Often I look back and wonder how I found the time and energy to do all this. The thing is, and just about anyone who has been "unplugged" and "awoken" can attest to: when you first discover permaculture, you have this passion IGNITED inside of you. This passion burns with the fury of 1000 suns. It's so critical that this fury is channeled into action, or it is wasted.
When I first started doing this, I would bring woodchips home from work every single day for 2 years. I had a van at the time. No truck, no trailer. I took the back seats out of my van, put a tarp in it, and literally shoveled woodchips from a new highway clearing (they cleared and chipped trees for a new highway)... shoveled those directly into the van. I'd drive away giddy. My wife was not a fan of her husband throwing woodchips into our nice van. But I had that FIRE in me.... (cont)
...(cont)...
It's so important that when you feel that fury flowing through you, that you act on it. "Tom" has that passion now. I can FEEL it. (See my viewer vids videos for who "Tom" is).
A food forest when done correctly is a ton of work. But it's all upfront. Once it's established, then nature takes the wheel, and the work is done. Your job is then to harvest the bounty and abundance, and make very minor adjustments. It's not to prevent death, but rather to help nature transition from that death towards where you want it to go next.
When I look back, I definitely had these major labour weekends where I got home on Friday and pulled 16+ hour days until I went back to work Monday. But there is no better way to spend a weekend than taking some action that will have permanent ramifications on the rest of your life.
Now that the major work is completed, it's almost no work. And looking back, the majority of that work was from many small workings. 20 mins collecting leaf bags after kids hockey on one day. 30 mins scooping woodchips into my van after work the next day. Constant, relentless, chipping away and working towards a bigger goal. Being at a hockey tournament and popping into a nursery on the way home, grabbing some flowers and herbs or bushes on sale, getting home and planting them.
I drove my wife CRAZY 🤪 during that phase, and I'm honestly so grateful to her that she had the patience to stick with me in my vision. She thought I completely lost my mind. Here was a guy who hated cutting his grass, and he's going to plants acres and acres of gardens? She honestly thought it was a mid life crisis and that I needed an intervention. Not even joking, it was that crazy in those first years.
TEARING up the front lawn, digging trenches and ponds. Dumping HUNDREDS of yards of woodchips all over the place. Just think about how INSANE that looks to the averge person. Especially the digging. LOL.
But that wasn't some mid life crisis. That was the firey passion that was ignited inside me, coming out. It just manifested in a very "destructive" way (in terms of tearing apart our beautiful country home front yard).
It's just so important to take advantage of that time and that passion. My fire is still there, burning away... this weekend I planted about 1000 trees. I will have a video coming out about saving seeds, taking advantage of windows of opportunities that present themselves very shortly throughout the year. Now is seed collecting opportunity.
Hundreds of pear seeds were planted in my old man walking trail. 2 hours of seed collection and planting will have lifetime reverberations in that area.
You can have a full time job, kids, wife or husband, other passions also, but what matters is that you focus on channeling passion into action, in an unrelenting way.
Great video. Love science in the kitchen. Hope you do more. Well, for those who don't know what to do with your store bought inferior vinegar ( because you now have beautiful apple cider vinegar on the way) vinegar has many uses particularly if its used following soap, bicarbonate or hydrogen peroxide.
Tbs vinegar in a cup of water works as hair conditioner or deodorant
1/2 and 1/2 vinegar and water works as foot fungal treatment
1:1 vinegar to water or bicarbonate mixed with water can be used to remove mould from walls and furniture
Vinegar added to the rinse cycle of the washing can work as fabric softener if you have hard water...
Clean tiles by wiping them with a bicarbonate water slurry. Go and watch a Permaculture legacy video then squirt tiles with vinegar. All the scum will bubble off with next to no scrubbing Rinse.
"Go and watch a Permaculture legacy video then squirt tiles with vinegar." - I endorse this.
I just got some $1 perennials at the grocery store the other day, love this time of year!!
I've made apple vinegar the common way. I have all the wine making equipment so I think I will follow your instructions and see the results.
I love seeing how you process your harvests. So many garden channels focus only on the growing part!
Totally agree. What is the point of growing all this if you don't know what to do with it after you have it! Cooking, canning and preserving are essential life skills.
Never thought about adding yeast, I just make the fruit scrap variety using the wild natural airborne yeasts. Last winter I made an awesome Pear and Orange Peel/ Blood Orange vinegar. I make mainly for using for salad dressing/marinades. This fall I used the Pear when processing my first small batch of Horseradish, which should make it aa healthier fermented condiment. I have a Lemon and Grapefruit almost done. Without the added yeast it is a 5/6 month project. My first batch Pear from July 2020 proves that like wine it mellows and improves with age. Thanks for sharing your process it has definitely inspired me to re-evaluate mine.
That's wonderful. Let me know what you find, if you make any improvements. I have a feeling I can learn a lot off you!
I produce my own Apple cider vinegar, and also Pear cider vinegar : the process is more than Natural. No need of apple juice, even less "red wine yeast". With proper conditions, fermentation will happen by itself. Atmospheric temperature is Vital : 2 years ago, the weather was bad, cold spring-summer, freezing till june (in north of France) : both vinegars were odorless-tasteless pee, light color without any "mothers" at all. Warmth in a shady space is more than required for best fermentation, without any additional substances, just fruits along a pinch of sugar and generous Sun (august-september, at most as it takes 2 months to create, when fruits fall from trees simply) ....I have so many "mothers" each year that I collect them. Nature does the beautiful job, if not unbalanced so far ! Which is happening more & more
By the way, the process you describe at 13:23 is called jacking, and that is how applejack (the spirit/liquor) is made!
Just found your channel and loving the content. So excited to have the science to explain why as well as the how.
Thanks 😊
I was just wondering how to make vinegar and "bam!", a new video about how to make apple cider vinegar! Thanks so much :)
Awesome 👌
Thank you so much for this information! You are such an inspiration and I really appreciate your honest scientific but practical take on things! I’ve been hoarding some organic apple cider vinegar so I can inoculate my first batch of home made acv, I’m going to have to buy apples as my trees are still to young. :-( but soon! ;-)
Good luck!
Very informative. Thanks for sharing. I’ve made hard cider using store bought apple juice before and it turned out great. I have yet to make acv but it is definitely on my to do list when my trees start producing. I still have to build a scratter and press first though. You should check into that as well so you can do very large batches very quickly with less labor.
I probably should invest in a scatter and press! I could probably make my own, it wouldn't be too hard. Maybe wait for wood prices to come back down!!!!! Or see if I can find some scrap wood and collect it.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I’m considering using a new garbage disposal mounted in an old stainless sink for a scratter. Harbor freight automotive press for a press.
Thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole of bacterial colonization of insect frass and then on to the topic of insect gut microbiota. Lol, I'm not being at all sarcastic--fascinating subjects that have never before crossed my mind!
LOL glad to help 😅
Hey thanks for this one. I was having the same problem finding a how to video worth a hoot. About how many apples did you juice for that gallon? Were are definitely into apple season here in upper east Tennessee. Thanks a bunch!!🌈❤🌎✌
Hmmmm tough question. Somewhere around 75-100 apples? We also bottled some apple juice.
Really fun video guys. It was so simple all along! Do you make kombucha? If so would you consider making a video like this one?
I do! ruclips.net/video/kTdT4E1Se1A/видео.html
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thanks! Will check it out at home with hubby today! You’re fantastic always 🙌
Thank you for a fabulous tutorial!!
Thanks for watching!
great video keith as always. i watched it twice. cheers
Cheers
You seem to have a lot of grass. Why do you use wood chips for mulch and not grass? I have a 10 hectare property in an arid environment but with access to artesian ground water. Would you recommend starting more with planting the trees and plants or should I first work on swales and water systems?
Because then I would be systematically extracting nutrients out of my lawn and it would turn into depleted soil and thus weedy. All the grass cuttings gets mulched and put right back in the spot they were cut, to feed the soil of the lawn. I do take the odd bit of clippings as compost fodder, but try to minimize that.
For your last question, if it's ever possible and practical you should always start with earthworks before planting. It gets tremendously harder after planting. I would start with swales and ponds, and then plant into them.
You can use a balloon instead of a bubbler. Just keep an eye on the balloon, and make sure it doesn't overfill after a few days. It could fly off. If the balloon starts getting to full just burp a little CO² out.
Do you do anything with the pulp? I've was wondering if it might be good in dough stuff like pancakes or bread.
Made me think about freezedrying, frying and coating in cinnamon like apple cheetos
We didn't, but I really wanted to give my compost a really nice boost before we get too cold, so it's very very valuable that way also.
The balloon can be a good idea also, but I don't really like it. I wanted to control the burp better. Let me explain....
When the gas pressurizes the bottle, if an opening is created, any flow of air is going to always go from high pressure to low pressure. Simply unscrewing the cap and listing for the whistling of gas pressure means that you know exactly where that flow is going. OUT.
Then you screw the lid back on just as it's starting to slow down, but before it's over. I now know that zero air got into my batch. That means no possible chance of contamination.
Using a balloon is great for adding in a layer of defense against bottle rupture. Worse case the balloon flies off. Zero chance of breaking glass.
The downside is that the venting is less controlled. Even opening it carefully, the pressure will equalize very quickly. Dynamically the air pressure flows out, but once it has equalized, there is a kinetic flow, an inertia which sucks more air out of the bottle. You get a small vacuum formed for a microsecond. Then the flow reverses and outside air flows into the jar. This happens faster than a human can react. We then put the balloon back on, but we have a contamination potential.
Now, maybe someone can get really skilled at this and can open up such a small vent, and close it before it stops. If you can do that, then do it. I just think it's not worth risking contamination if you are good at manually venting the screw cap and not forgetting to do so.
But yeah, that's a long winded way of why I just went with the screw top.
Either way, an airlock lid is like 5-10 bucks and I think is well worth it. If it prevents one contaminated batch then it pays for itself 4 times over in one time.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I've made wine with the balloon method before. It was named the same: "Balloon Wine." I might have had to vent it once, and yes you only stretch out part of the balloon from around the neck to partially vent the balloon. It's real easy, and it's less trouble then you're thinking. However the loosened cap method works fine as long a you always do it everyday (at first).
Looks good Keith, but why did you separate out the cores?
Mostly because my wife wanted me to. You really don't need to.
One nice part about having a higher juice content (than say if you just added it all in stage 1) is that it actually cranks up the sugar content. This means more alcohol on phase 1, which then means more esters and phenols, which means more flavor.
You can use all parts of the apple, but the more pulp that gets in, the weaker the product will be in the end. It will still be fantastic though.
All the cores were planted. So a nice byproduct of coring the apples is that my local community got a few hundred new apple trees in a few decades, all planted out in my local park.
Thank You 🥰 I love apple cider vinegar so entirely much.
Thanks for watching Pam 😀
Looking great
Ok, I might be crazy, but your "8 days later" and "2 weeks later" reminded me of Ren and Stimpy...
I like to throw the odd easter egg in there for people.
A lot of people don't realize that kombucha goes through exactly the same process. It's essentially a vinegar made from tea.
Yes, the exact same process, even the same acids. Some ferments use lactic acid, but both of these two both use acetic acid.
I want more poetry in your videos!
Oiy
Is it bad that the thing I'm most interested in this is how to make alcohol in shtf situations
If the shift happens then you might need that alcohol.
I want to make traditional apple jack right now. Just need a good barrel to freeze peel my cider in...
If the SHF really bad, then being able to make alcohol would be more valuable in terms of barter than having gold to trade. I think this isn't just a nice life skill to know, but a really really important thing in terms of so many SHF considerations. Sure there is the barter thing I mentioned, but also, people will be extra vigilant in protecting the person who is making their alcohol. You may get some security benefits out of it also.
Yeah, just an all around good skill set to have. One that is very nice when times are good, but one that could be critical when SHF.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy skills and knowledge are way more valuable ways to be a prepper than having a stocked bunker. Not to toot my own horn, but I'm very confident in my ability to single handedly bring a small community to medieval tech plus a few electrical generators made from salvaged parts to be enough to run power tools.
Hi, Keith; Miq here. My smartphone broke (where I watched all your videos) and I lost all my account info because like a nitwit I never wrote down my passwords and such and can't retrieve them. Anyhow, at the end of Dec we will move overseas as I mentioned months and months ago. I have been so busy with the logistics and preparation of that that I haven't been able to keep up with your channel, but I was thinking about you as I "winterized/proofed my garden" for the upcoming year. We'll be back every 10 months to check on things, and it will be interesting to see how much things get out of hand in our absence. I make some homemade vinegars with the simple sugar and water method, but if I can, I might try my hand at making AVC in Lebanon. Will keep you posted if I do. In any case, all the best in the New Year, and I hope to find the time to pop in now and then, even if we are going to be confined to apartment living for the next 4 years.
Good luck on the move!
A few hours after watching this I now have a sausage mill dripping apple slop and a jar filled with apple mush...
I already have apple jam and dried apple rings, what will I do with the remaining 20 kilos of apple? More good ideas?
Hahaha that's awesome!
Apple pies, Apple crisp, even just Apple juice.
In a pinch you can use a balloon for an air lock.
Ah yes, a nice mixture of videos on how to make a food forest and how to use it once you have it, that's great thank you :D
From soil to mouth...
... and back again?
LOL 😆
Indeed, I try to add in cooking videos. What is the point of growing all this if you don't know what to do with it!! Cooking is such an important life skill. Cooking, preserving, canning, it should be taught to everyone in school, not just in one class. It's just so important for our collective health.
Can you please do kombucha now?
Good news, I already did! ruclips.net/video/kTdT4E1Se1A/видео.html
You made a SCOBY. Cool ok. So making apple cider vinegar is like making kombucha.
Very similar yes, but no need for the tea for caffeine.
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brian laundrie and gaby potitio 20 years later.
Are you happy w that juicer? Now I see why your biceps are so big, for real, you took off the fat
LOL 😆 I have a long way to go. But thank you, very kind. I'm trying to workout more. My biggest issue is that I still eat like I'm in university and eating 5000 calories for baseball. My family calls me the garbage disposal. I eat healthy but I eat a LOT. Slowly trying to claw back on that too!!
Haha or were you talking about Trish? LOL 😆 😂 🤣