Spring is here, Bliss is near

Enjoying homemade Kombucha (which is delicious) and BBQ in the spring sunshine of our community garden has been our recent excitement. We planted our very first garden last saturday (which also marked our 2 year anniversary!), which seemed very successful at the time. Who knew that the birds would be so interested in out tomato plants. We planted 12 little starters, and now we're down to 2.

I bought 4 more tomato starters and we're going to let them grow bigger before we let them grow buck wild in Mama Dee's Community Garden. At least our lettuce and beets seem to be thriving...

Watch out Synergy, poppa's got a brand new batch!

Since settling into our Brooklyn lifestyle, we've bought fewer and fewer bottles of kombucha. Which is funny, because I was so excited when I discovered that a bottle of Synergy and Brooklyn brand kombucha only costs $2.60 at the Park Slope Coop. I guess we found that it was an unnecessary cost, as well as one more bottle to add to our recycling. But now that we're making our own yogurt and pickling our own beets, why not brew our own kombucha?

Luckily our friend Kris, who has inspired us a great deal, posted step by step directions on how to brew kombucha (and make yogurt) on her own blog-http://roomtogrowpdx.blogspot.com

So I found a mother/pet kombucha on craigslist, and got busy. I just bottled it today, with high hopes of some tasty bidness in just a few days time. More news on our home brewed kombucha is yet to come...