• Making Fermented Fruit Soda

    Fruit soda or fruit kvass is very easy to make and is a healthy refreshment!    Simply fill a 1 liter jar with fruit, add 2 tablespoons of honey and top it up…

  • Lemon Tree Guild

    June 2023. Curry plant(Helichrysum italicum) is in flower and all the other elements are growing happily! August 2023. All the herbs grew substantially. I expanded the guild by planting Autumn Olive (on the…

  • Garden in January

    English Türkçe This winter is going quite warm.We had just one night of frost so far. The frequent southwest winds, called Lodos in Turkish, are warming up the weather. On the other hand…

  • Volunteer Garlic Sprouts

    Türkçe In the first week of December, I noticed some garlic sprouts around our peach tree where I’ve planted some last year. I must have forgotten about them, so they went to sleep…

  • Diospyros Lotus (Date Plum)

    TR I came across a tall tree laden with berry like fruits and wondered what it may be. I collected some of the seeds of fallen fruit and went home to inspect them!…

  • Linden Tree Bast Fibers

    A month or two ago I found some pruned linden tree branches on the street and brought them over for extracting the fibers from their inner bark (bast).   After peeling the outer…

  • Zucchini with Lemon

    If you grow zucchini, sometimes you’ll see baby ones that stop growing. When I was living on the Aegean Coast, I learned a very easy and tasty way to make use of them! …

  • Making a Lemon Peel Cleanser without Vinegar!

    Here is an easy way to make an all-purpose cleanser with only leftover lemon peels and water! You can use it to clean everything (except marble): kitchen counter, greasy kitchen tub, bathrooms, floors…