a slice of watermelon

Near Zero Waste Living: Watermelon Rind Pickles

This watermelon is mammoth. I bought it for $10 and it’s organic. I’ve already butchered it and distributed chunks to five different neighbors. We still have more melon than we’ll eat in a week. #gofarmers

watermelon

Tonight I’m attempting watermelon rind pickles for the first time. This is part of the “use all parts of the fruit/vegetable” I try to live by. Reducing food waste, preventing the need to buy packaged pickles, reminding me of how precious all the earths resources are. If you have some spare time and would like to try it at home, Please click here for ingredients and recipe.

We shall see how this experiment goes. Excited to be using homemade apple scrap vinegar in the brine. 

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Pickle Jelly Jar is created by Vic, a stay at home mom of two. Vic is committed to reducing her family’s impact on the environment by living a low waste lifestyle. She wastes less by making more – food, cleaning supplies, toothpaste, etc – at home. Vic also aims to follow the 5Rs – Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot.  Many people have a turning point with becoming more careful with choices and more kind to the world. Vic was inspired to act when read that every toothbrush she ever used was still on the planet. There is no throwing things AWAY. They are always here. Knowing her toothbrush will be here long after she’s gone…. it was time to change.