02351 Useful Kitchen Permaculture Skills
When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational. — Emeril Lagasse
Skills are important to the lifestyles we create via permaculture design. They are portable — you take them with you wherever you go. Of course, no one needs to master all of these skills, but everybody can master some of them. Make acquiring new skills a major aspect of your permaculture lifestyle design plan. Education is one thing that can never be taken away from you. When you leave, you don’t have to pack your education. It goes with you automatically.
- Bread baking
- Brewing (beers, soda pops, wines)
- Energy management
- Fermentation
- Food shopping
- Food safety
- Gardening and food production
- Juicing
- Knife skills
- Meat cutting
- Menu planning
- Recycling, composting and waste management
- Sauce and gravy making
- Solar cooking
- Stock making
- boiling water and pressure canning
- brining/salting
- cheese making
- curing meats/hams
- dehydrating
- jam and jelly making
- sausage making (charcuterie)
- smoking