Edible Cape Cod

Feed The Soil

• Photo by John Greiner Ferris

  Healthy soil is composed of generous amounts of minerals, organic matter, water, air, and living organisms.

• Photo by John Greiner Ferris

  A clove of sprouting garlic.

• Photo by John Greiner Ferris

  Cormier works the soil to partially bury a bamboo steamer of rice.

• Photo by John Greiner Ferris

  A bamboo steamer is used as a container that will allow bacteria to come in contact with cooked rice in order to capture indigenous micro-organisms (IMO).

• Photo by John Greiner Ferris

  Cormier lays a bamboo steamer filled with rice in a shallow hole she dug in the rich loam of a woodlot in Brewster.