Alright, Koji was not locally available at the market I went to. However, I was able to go to Cascadia Homebrew to both talk bread and mill barley. So, now I have some Golden Promise barley for one of my loafs of bread. I also picked up some rice flour and will head down to the coop and farmer’s market to scour another round for a local flour. Maybe get in touch with Skagit Valley Malting.
I’m presently uncertain if my salsa has taken to fermentation. The brine may have been too effective at microbiological murder. It also turns out that, by my taste, I may have manged to incidentally end up with an “oops, all sweet peppers” blend.
This week, I attended and volunteered for the 38th Evergreen Harvest Festival. I arrived about and hour early and set up tables for the pumpkin carving workshop, and then got the tables and chairs for the event I agreed to volunteer for, a natural building workshop centered on procuring, making and using cob clay. Attendants were invited to take their shoes off and assist in mixing the clay, and then taking a wooden plank on which to sculpt a keepsake.
The set up was light and the workshop was occurring at a later time than I’d though, so I took the festival in. I should have brought and empty bottle for the all day cider press. Situated along with the farm run press was a local distiller, Cascadia Terroir, who deal in essential oils, perfumes and so on, the had a workshop from 12:00 to 1:30 where they brought out a still to make some lavender oil. Apart from this, there was a Tumwater school bake sale, Tamale Fusion and some live music. After the workshop that I was volunteering for ended, there was an oyster shucking competition. Can’t forget that there was also a mycological society present, they were running a combination booksellers and organic mushroom farming stand where one could buy bags of mulch and seed fungus.