Washington, D.C.—Alfalfa is more than a protein-rich feed for livestock; it may also be an excellent source of biogas. This mixture of methane and other gases is produced when plants (or any organic ...

Food fermentation is the process of creating food or changing the properties of food using microbes. Many cultures started fermenting foods to preserve them. For example, fermenting vegetables allowed ...

This fall has stricken me with fermentation fever, and my kitchen has turned into a laboratory run by yeasts, bacteria and various enzymes. It happens each year. That’s because the autumn culminates ...

MAKANDA (WSIL) -- The days are getting shorter and fall is just over a week away signaling the start of harvest season. Grapes are lining the vines at local vineyards just waiting to be picked.

BOSTON - JUNE 16: Fermentation enthusiast Jeremy Ogusky demonstrates how to make sauerkraut by fermenting vegetables, step by step, in his Jamaica Plain pottery studio, June 16, 2016. Step seven: ...

When we cook, we tend to only use part of each ingredient, leaving skins, stalks, fronds or peels unused and throwing away roughly a quarter of what we buy. But there’s a lot of flavor potential in ...