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Brewing Is Fermentation You Can Drink
Learn · Food Processing & Preservation Beer, wine, cider, and kombucha are all the same idea. Let yeast eat sugar, and you…
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Fermenting Food Lets Good Microbes Do the Work
Learn · Food Processing & Preservation Fermenting sounds like rot, and in a way it is. The trick is that you invite…
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Processing Food Is Just Making It Keep and Travel
Learn · Food Processing & Preservation Processed food has a bad name. The idea behind it is older and kinder than the…
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Preserving Food Is How a Harvest Lasts the Year
Learn · Food Processing & Preservation A garden gives you everything at once and then nothing for months. Preserving is the old…
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The Earth Sciences Are One Story About One Planet
Learn · Earth Sciences Geology, weather, water, and ecology are taught as separate subjects. They are really four chapters of one story…
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Knowing a Plant by Name Changes How You See It
Learn · Earth Sciences A field of green is just scenery until you can name what grows there. Learn the names and…
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Healthy Soil Is Alive, Not Just Dirt
Learn · Earth Sciences We call it dirt and treat it like a dead backdrop. Soil is the most crowded, most alive…