Grow a Sustainable Diet: Planning and Growing to Feed Ourselves and the Earth (15 page)

Left to right: Trowel, Lesche soil knife, Trake, Cobrahead.

Ginseng sweet potato slips grown in a coldframe, ready to cut off for transplanting.

Purple sweet potatoes with slips grown in jars of water.

Sweet potatoes freshly dug with a garden fork.

Grainmills left to right: Grainmaker, Country Living, Corona.

Threshing with the plastic bat method.

Threshing set-up for the foot method.

Wheat (right) is ready to harvest. Rye (left) will be ready a week later.

Tomato juice (left) and tomato soup (right).

Pressure canner (left) and water bath canner (right) with canning jars and two-piece lids.

Dill (sour) pickles fermenting in a gallon jar.

Traditional straight sided crock, hand carved stomper, Harsch crock.

Corn and bags of cowpeas hanging in the barn waiting for shelling.

Corn and cowpeas in the pantry.