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More DIY Furniture: Grid Beam and Open Structures

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Design
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...Your Own Living Structures, relies on either wood or metal with a regular series of holes drilled to accept bolts. Grid Beam is modular and you can use the method to make chairs, tables, beds and rooms. Pieces can be taken apart, reused and reconfigured. If you want to try it you’ll definitely want a drill press and a jig to make the holes uniform and square. Thankfully you can find many used drill presses in the wild as they are a common tool in...

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Bread Class and Lunch at Jennie Cooks Catering

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Events
...cuits Black and Blueberry Jam Strawberry Balsamic Jam For Lunch: Sparkling White Sangria Cashew Cream Savory Sourdough Bread Pudding Classic Gazpacho (from Jennie’s upcoming cookbook!) Wilted Spinach Salad Strawberry Shortcake This class is the first of a 3-part series! The regular price is $85 for a single class or $200 for all three. Price includes all ingredients, supplies, recipes, instructions, the take-home finished product you will make you...

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How to Make a Bee Skep

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Animals, Bees
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...build your own. Looks like a fun project. How skeps are used The following series of videos show how skeps are used. Part 6 documents the steps leading up to the honey harvest. It’s a labor intensive process. To get at the honeycomb, skeps are “bounced” over an empty skep to remove the bees. These bees are then combined with weaker hives and overwintered. It’s easy to see, from the hard work and level of skill required, why the modern and much eas...

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Will the Lawn Rebate Turn LA into a Gravel Moonscape?

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Gardening
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...u that there would be blood in the streets. We need a new cultural narrative and a crash course in plant appreciation. Such a reeducation program is a long term project. In the short term, another local writer (who was a guest on episode 20 of our podcast), Emily Green, has a very useful series of posts, “After the Lawn,” that will walk you through a “safe and sane” lawn replacement. Lawn replacement in our dry Mediterranean climate could serve as...

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Building a Makeshift Treadmill Desk

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Fitness
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In what I hope will be a regular feature, here’s the first in a series of interviews of other homesteaders about interesting low tech home tech projects they’ve taken on. In this interview we talk to writer and homesteader Charlotte McGuinn Freeman about her DIY treadmill desk–a project I’m considering at the Root Simple compound. Charlotte blogs at LivingSmall.com and lives in Livingston, Montana. Why did you build a treadmill desk? Because as I...

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