Self-reliance in LA: backyard farm + radical home economics by Kirsten Dirksen on May 20, 2013 Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne have been farming their yard in Los Angeles for over a decade. In addition to …
Fermented pet: care and feeding of sourdough starter by Kirsten Dirksen on November 24, 2010 Homemade sourdough bread can be a vocation for life. Once you have caught some wild yeast and created a sourdough …
Slow sourdough: catch wild yeast for a better loaf of bread by Kirsten Dirksen on November 23, 2010 In the long history of bread-making, commercial yeast is a relatively new invention (evidence of breadmaking was found in Egyptian …
The way bread was made: naturally leavened sourdough by Kirsten Dirksen on July 7, 2009 A couple generations ago, in much of Europe, bread was made at home and without industrial yeast. Instead, every household …
