NO-WASTE Cheesemaking
Once upon a time, all across the world, self-sufficient peasants were quietly making a living among their animals and plants. Their lives may not have been the stuff of legends, and we don’t have a thorough record of their daily doings … but how I wish we did! Because in their undocumented past were cycles of growing and harvesting, curing and putting up, and ingenious methods of redefining the wastes from these processes and turning them into assets instead. Generations of tradition streamlined these processes and made them logical, instinctive, and beautiful. And then, industrialized modernity wiped most of them away as fast as you can say “Wrapped in plastic for your convenience!”
My personal quest as a homesteader and peasant-in-training has been trying to rediscover what those hundreds of thousands of hardworking people once knew nearly instinctively. Nothing illustrates this endeavor more
