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margaret roach, head gardener

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cheesemaking & fermentation workshops

workshops collageDO WHAT YOU LOVE, RIGHT? I love co-teaching day-long events on topics dear to me, including cooking and putting up garden-fresh food. I especially love collaborating on those classes with hit cookbook author Alana Chernila, who is also a friend and neighbor. From cheesemaking to fermentation and more, some upcoming offerings of Alana’s and mine:

cheese class with alana

cheesemaking and home dairy

with Alana Chernila and Margaret Roach

(June 13, repeating in fall and winter. Details and ticket information.)

COME JOIN  Alana Chernila and Margaret Roach for a day of cheesemaking, plus an overall introduction to home dairy. In this full-day workshop, you’ll learn how to make creamy ricotta, quick mozzarella, feta, yogurt, creme fraiche, and cream cheese. You’ll go home with all the skills you need (and an optional cheesemaking kit if you like, too), and you may never go back to store-bought cheese or yogurt again!

The workshop price includes a full day of “classroom” learning, as well as breakfast and lunch. This is a hands-on class, so come prepared to roll up your sleeves and be part of the delicious magic. In season, we’ll take a break to walk in Margaret’s garden as well.

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fermentation collage

fermentation

with Alana Chernila and Margaret Roach
(Ticketing to come. )

JOIN Alana Chernila and Margaret Roach for this full-day introduction to home fermentation. We’ll cover the general techniques of both dry salt and wet brine fermentation, and together we’ll make sauerkraut, kimchi, preserved lemons, hot sauce, dilly beans, and a fruit shrub.
You’ll go home with all the skills you need to start fermenting at home. This is a hands-on workshop, so come ready to roll up your sleeves and participate! The workshop price includes a full day of “classroom” learning, as well as breakfast and lunch. In season, we’ll take a break to walk in Margaret’s garden as well.

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Podcast: Soups, Soups & More Soups

I’VE FOLLOWED a vegetarian diet for decades, but it wasn’t until just a few years ago that I mastered a really good vegetable soup. Now I’m learning variations on vegetable-based soups, plus ones with beans and even ideas for mushroom soups, too–all thanks to Alexandra Stafford and these recipes. (Stream it below, read the transcript or subscribe free.)

https://robinhoodradioondemand.com/podcast-player/6211/vegetable-soup-ideas-with-ali-stafford-november-5-a-way-to-garden-with-margaret-roach.mp3

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Welcome! I’m Margaret Roach, a leading garden writer for 25 years—at ‘Martha Stewart Living,’ ‘Newsday,’ and in three books. I host a public-radio podcast; I also lecture, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants.

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