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Sept 1-30
Calgary +
Alberta
Culture
Days
Oct. 8
Perogy Day
Int’l
Artist Day
Oct. 25th
Sept 22-Oct 15
National
Culture Days
COU-COU
Add
Wally’s B’day
Oct 14 2022
(Except rule #2 + #5 + #9)
C ollected B i t s n Bob s 4 C ollage

Hello!
Welcome to Coffee with Moe, the sketchbook edition.
While sitting down and hashing out what I was going to create for you this autumn,
I kept coming back to the idea of a sketchbook. A lot less formal than a magazine
full of wordy articles, flipping through a sketchbook is perhaps a little more true to
what happens behind the scenes here at Moe Creative. A means of collecting ideas.
(I always have a few notebooks/ journals/ sketchbooks on the go)
Within these pages you’ll still find take-aways, things to ponder, plus notes and
quotes that inspire. You’ll flip thru sketches, experimental ideas or processes and a
selection of what goes on in any one of my physical Sketchbooks.
So, kick off your shoes, get comfy and tuck yourself in with a cuppa your favourite
warm soothing beverage.
It’s time to flip and sip our way through this edition of Coffee with Moe.
Afterall, I find that coffee is always better when shared together.
XO
Moe

* Year round Indoor Salad Gardening *
by Peter Burke
Benefits of microgreens:
(They’re)
- baby vegetables and plants
- nutrient dense. Nutrients vary by plant grown. So pick your powerhouse.
- convenient to grow in small areas/ batches
- often more nutrient dense than their mature counterparts
- helpful in scratching your gardening itch come winter
- known to (generally) be rich in: magnesium, copper, potassium, iron, zinc
- rich in a wider variety of polyphenols and antioxidents that their mature counterparts
- an easy addition to meals for a beautiful burst of flavour. Again, pick your flavour fav.
Findings:
Soil is a more cost effective growing
medium, but can mold and get gnats
quite easily. These problems can be
mostly eliminated with a healthy
sprinkle of cinnamon across the
surface of the soil after spreading
seed.
Using coconut coir and bottom
watering* my trays has eliminated
these issues for me.
*See hot tip
Recommend:
A little goes a long way.
Don’t be discouraged with a little bag of seeds. :)
I am more myself in a garden
then anywhere else on earth
- Doug Greene

Hot Tip:
Create a wicking system by doubling
up trays that allow a water reservoir
between the two (No space, no good)
Cut small slits in your top tray so that
paper towel or a wicking cloth can
cover the area under your substrait
and be fed through the slits to wick
water up from the tray below.
This will ensure your soil/coir can
wick up moisture when
needed and will reduce
overwatering and mold.
LATHER. RINSE. REPEAT.
The how to’s of Micro Greens:
- soak seeds as recommended on your seed packet
- While seeds are soaking prepare your trays.
•Wet and lay out wicking material at the base of your top tray (See hot tip)
•evenly hydrate your substrate (soil/coir) to create wet on wet connection w/ wick
•place about an inch of substrate with good contact across your wicking medium
- Spread out your seeds in an even layer atop your substrate of choice (See “Findings”)
-Cover loosely with re-useable foil to keep dark, retain moisture and allow air flow.
- When seeds have germinated and are growing (3+ days) remove cover and place tray in light
- Keep water reservoir topped up daily.
- You can start taste-testing the greens for your preferences when they have greened up
*quite often you will get a second flush of micro-greens after your first harvest, so don’t be
hasty with tossing out once cut greens, keep up the watering.
Canadian Distributor of
Organic Micro-Green Seeds:
Family Owned Mumm’s
www.sprouting.com

The stats are in!
Reading a chapter a day can:
Add to your life span by ruducing mortality
by 17 %
Help you sleep better.
Reduce stress.
Calculation for how much
water to drink:
By Weight
half your weight in lbs
=
water in ounces
Improve a sense of connection.
Fight Alzheimers through the
exercise of reading
comprehension.
A chapter a day may truly
keep the Doctor at bay.
& activity
12 extra Oz of water
every 30 min of acivity

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Quick Salt Brine:
4 Cups water
2% salt= 1 Tbsp Sea salt
3% salt= 1.5 Tbsp Sea salt
4% salt= 2 Tbsp Sea salt
5% salt= 2.5 Tbsp Sea salt
*Stir until salt is dissolved to create the brine.
KEEP ____________________________________________________
IT DOWN!!
.
.
(Below the top of the brine, that is.)
Jam pack your Jar.
Be sure to pack in lots of herbs, garlic, onions and spices
at the base and edges of your chosen fruit/veg.
These will add delightful flavour and a packed jar will
ensure nothing floats up to the top of the brine where
oxygen can allow things to mold. (See Kham yeast)
Kham Yeast.
A note on Salt:
Use the best uniodized sea salt
you have. always.
Iodized salt tampers with the
ferment and that is a bad idea
Sea salt contains beneficial
trace minerals too.
my go-to is between 3 to 4 %
4% for things that mold easier
like cukes and peppers. Develop
your own sense & judgement to
figure out the percent you like.
Prepping your salt brine
separately allows you to avoid a
lot of calculating and weighing.
I have a photo of this ewe and her
buddy tucked into my light table on my
desk. She is a happy touchstone to a
time of wandering the french countryside
that lives vividly in my memories.
(I might have her, in part, to thank)
Days filled with the scent of irises,
fresh greenery and orange blossoms.
Of friendly medieval villages, swooping
swallows, mistletoe filled trees, of
babbling water & a sense of peace.
This white substance (Not mold) is a safe naturally forming
yeast that can develop on your ferment.
Not always though
How can you tell the difference?
Kham Yeast = white to creamy film. Smooth or stringy and/or powdery.
Look up images to become familiar with this foreign friend.
Yeast can be skimmed off with a spoon.
Mold* = Fuzzy or Hairy. Colours incl. green, blue, white and black
Throw moldy ferments out, also. When in doubt, throw it out.
* Mold needs floaties + air to thrive, so by keeping your jarred bits n bobs submerged, you avoid mold naturally

Until you upgrade
Use a simple clean ziploc filled
with water/rocks to weigh down your
produce, keeping your ferment
anaerobic (below the surface)
Keep bugs out with a paper
coffee filter and
an elastic band. Simple.
You can upgrade to glass
weights and fermentation
lids (airlock) if you feel like getting
fancy .
4 years in & I’m still going
through my first box of
fermentation coffee filters.
(I’m a french press kinda girl)
Keep water a half inch + above your
fermenting fruit or veg and about the
same distance from the top of your
jar. A jar that’s too full can be plain ol’
messy to move around.
Especially since the process of
fermentation will cause the
brine to bubble up.
You can easily account for this
top space requirement when
prepping your veg/fruit.
Botulism on your mind?
It has to be mentioned!!!
#1
A well done ferment develops
lactobacillus bacteria and lives
in an anaerobic environment.
Both of these measures create
unsuitable conditions for
Botulism.
#2
Make sure everything you use
is clean, clean, clean. This too is
very helpful.
#3
Still worried? Get a book out of
the library or do a little digging
on the internet using a
reliable resource. You’ll find
out that it’s not as big of a
worry as you first thought.
LABEL
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LABEL
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LABEL
* Save the extra brine
for next time.
Just cap your mix
(For evaporations sake)
and you’re ready to
start up your next
ferment. Woo Hoo
Dry salting:
1 Tbsp for every 1.5 lbs
Dry salting shredded carrots or cabbage
(think Kraut) will help to release the water
within.
Massage/mix in salt so that the veg is coated.
This will allow the salt to draw water out.
(Place a dish towel over your bowl to prevent
flies in your mix)
Let stand for an hour-ish
Massage/mix and press out exess water.
If you do need to add brine in the end to
completely submerge your mixture before use
the 3% recipe on page one as a topper upper.
* Shredded fermented carrots are my fav to have
on-hand. Not only are they easy and great as an
extra topper on almost anything. Adding some left
over carrot brine to your jar when starting up a
ferment will kick start the process.
I choose carrots because the mild sweetness of
carrot brine work well with almost all fermented food
I create. The only thing to remember is only use extra
brine, your carrots still need cover to thrive.
Set your mind at ease.

A lot of people seem to think that they can’t draw.
But everyone can create a page full of squiggles.
Am I right?
That is the magic behind NEUROGRAPHIC ART or
NEUROART. Yes, ART!
What are the benefits?
Sometimes I just squiggle up a quick page, or scrap of paper
Sometimes I use the shape of something I’ve drawn like this swan
Sometimes I create coloured lines (representing my feelings? or not)
Sometimes I just use whatever pen I have on hand
Sometimes I colour in the spaces, sometimes I don’t.
Sometimes I try to make it look like stained glass
Anything goes, really.
Well, you’ll probably notice straight away that it gets your brain
focused on something other than life and that can feel pretty
meditative and self-soothing. (insert shoulder drop here)
Channelling stress into the squiggles, can be super stress relieving.
Albeit, I might suggest you NOT use a felt tipped pen for that.
At the intersection of every
line, soften /create a
more organic or
liquified look as you see here by
building up the line as you wish.
The simple act of squiggling and softening those squiggles allows
the conscious mind to let go of its tenacious grip on stress.
This in turn, allows your powerful subconcious the space it needs to
sort through your current cunundrums without a stressed out
conciousness chiming in. Only to add layers of emotionally charged
distraction and limitations.
It’s kinda funny (and awesome)
When I give my subconcious space to sort through my stuff. It often
bubbles up new ideas, solutions to impasses & oh so much more.
Give it a whirl! :)
GET LOST IN THE PROCESS

Many thanks to Family, Friends & Inspiration:
Gratefully & alphabetically listed:
AB, AC, AG, AL, AR, BCV, BD, CF, CG, CR, CS, DD, DK,
DL, DO, DR, EC, ED, EN, GD, GDC, HC, HM, IF, JD, JH,
JM, JR, JS, KB,KH, KN, KW, LB, LD, LK, LM, LOL, LP, MB,
MC, MH, MQ, MS, MY, ND, NH, NS, PA, PB, RC, RS, SB,
SH, SK, SP, SMG, TN, TR, VH, YK.
& all Moe Creative’s clientele & suppliers.
All for whom this issue was created, with heart &
much gratitude.
XO
Moe

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