HOW TO MAKE HERBAL HOMEMADE WINE AND MEAD

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With the explosion of the DIY movement in recent years, more people seem to be returning to old-school food and drink traditions, many of them involving fermentation. The HuffPost’s hilarious list of “The 22 Most Hipster Foods On The Planet” includes a great many of these, from kombucha to pickles, craft beers to kimchee. But as we herbalists know, these traditions aren’t new at all, and they’re definitely not just for hipsters. My older relatives (and yours too, I’ll bet) were making herbal homemade wine and mead long before homebrewing was de rigueur, and guess what? You can too!

Ayo Ngozi