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Kitchen Sink Farming

Easily and Cheaply Grow and Ferment Your Own Food for a Healthier Now and Greener Future

Table of Contents

Preface

Part One: The “Why?”

Why Mess with a Perfectly Good Seed?

Increasing Nutrients

Enzyme Inhibitors and Digestibility

Truly Empty Calories

A History of Agri-Tech

Burger and a Side of Flies: Genetically Modified Food

When Organic Isn’t (It’s Too Easy Being Green)

Collapse: The Future of Food

Cuba and the Mini Peak Oil Experiment

Easter Island’s Last Lumberjack

Everyone But the Kitchen Sink: Modernization, McDonald’s, and Hyper-Maturation

Mind over Matter: Changing Food Habits Is Easier When You Think

Using the Brain for a Change

Transitioning to a Living Diet

Part Two: The “How”

Sprouting

Hit the Ground Sprouting

Sprouting in a Nutshell

Your Sprouting Toolkit

The Wide World of Sprouts

Seeds

Herbs and Spices

Nuts

Too Busy Not To

The Grid-Iron Chef, The Travelling Farm and Superfoods for Superpets

Growing

Grass and Micro-Greens

Benefits of Grass Juice

Why Cleanse?

How to Grow and Enjoy Grasses

Dirt, New and Used

Containers

Light

Fertilization: Feed Your Soil, Not Your Plants

Water and the Big “O”: Hydrogen Peroxide

Grass Growing

Grass Seed Specifics

Shoots and Leaves

Micro-Lettuce and Baby Greens

Container Gardening

Light

Choosing Crops

Self-Watering Containers

Simple Self-Watering Devices: “The Spike” and “The Holy Bottle”

The Self-Watering Bucket

The Self-Watering Garden

Fertilizing in Containers

Hooked on ‘Ponics: Hydroponic and Aeroponic Gardening

The Plans: Hydroponics

Small-Scale Set-Up

Large Scale Set-Up

Growing Wall

Growing Barrel

The Plans: Aeroponics - The Aero-Tote

Composting and Worm-iculture

DIY Tumbling Composter

Vermiculture (Worm Farming)

Fermenting

A Brief History of Slime

DNA Sluts and Your Guts: Bacterial Genetic Promiscuity and Its Effect on Human Evolution and Happiness

Public Enemy #1: The War on Bugs

The Five-Minute Fermentation: Probiotic Water

Local ‘Crobes

Veggies and Krauts

Seed Cheese and Yogurt

Simple Seed Cheese

Coconut Cream Cheese

“Advanced” Cheese Making: A 2-Day Degree

Vinegar

Mead

Ginger Beer

Sourdough and Naturally Yeasted Breads

Cultivated Flora

Kombucha

On Water, Tea, and Sugar

Gimme the ‘Booch, Baby!

Benefits of Kombucha

Dairy Kefirs: Milk, Cloak, and Dagger

Water Kefirs / Tibicos

Fermenting Fats: Butter Ghee-fir, and Oil

Part Three: The “Now What?”: Recipes for Your Sprouts, Krauts, and Everything Else

Why Living Foods?

On Measuring

The Blessing of Bad Food

Helpful Tools for Preparing These Recipes

The Recipes:

Drinks and Smoothies

Mains, Sides, Apps

Salads and Dressings:

Sandwiches, Rolls, and Wraps

Soups and Stews

Snacks and Condiments

Cheeses, Dips, and Spreads

Breads

Breakfast

Desserts

Putting It All Together

Index

Thought Bubbles

Essential Fatty Acids

Alkalinity

Vinegar Friends

Why Salt?

Cooking by Freezing

Raw Fats and Unrefined Oils for Weight-Loss and Well-Being

Raw Honey

Time to Make the Coconuts

Foodology – Living Molecular Gastronomy

Index C: Alphabetical List of Recipes

Index D: Specific Health Concerns

Appendices

Appendix A: Sprouting Table

Appendix B: Plant Nutritional Deficiencies and Their Cures