A Homegrown Revolution manifesto by way of a short (true) story.

February 21, 2007

Bikes

..., “Are you o.k.?” the hipster jumped up. 6. The importance of bike safety part 2 He motioned to one of two attractive women on the sidewalk and said, “It’s your fault, it’s because of you, I was staring at you.” Robert Hurst, in his excellent book The Art of Urban Cycling covers this very problem. Fixed gears, high traffic speeds, poorly designed bike lanes, inattentive motorists, and voyeurism make an especially dangerous cocktail. Stay alert out...

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Saturday Tweets: Ascension K-Mart Choppers

Mr. Homegrown

May 4, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...ttps://t.co/pD7DgDfXAw — Martha Lauren (@NQRW) May 4, 2019 When Brussels started making its main boulevards car-free, people complained the plan was just displacing pollution to areas with cars. So city leaders pedestrianized even more major streets. https://t.co/v6HMuX0zt5 — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) May 4, 2019 pic.twitter.com/H5Ba4nXBNG — Cursed Architecture (@CursedArchitect) May 3, 2019 How do machine metaphors shape our understanding of r...

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A Not So Close Shave

Mr. Homegrown

April 25, 2019

Domesticus, Shaving

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...log and our books? How many times have I presented some neatly tied up homemaking/gardening tip when the actual results were more ambiguous? Or, to go deeper with this, how often have I presented a “failure” as a kind of false modesty? At the risk of doing the latter, and via a long winded media theory laden introduction, permit me update my ongoing struggle with shaving. Most folks don’t know that, long before the advent of social media deep in t...

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How to Build Walls with Pallets

Mr. Homegrown

August 8, 2016

Design

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...ng sun. It’s difficult to figure out a use for these objects other than as art. For utilitarian needs, such as building walls, we must turn to the many pallets that also litter our streets. Sketchup model by Ron S. But pallets can be tough to work with. The wood splinters easily making disassembly a tricky proposition (watch the Garden Fork TV pallet breaker video if you want to go down that route). Famed internet pallet guru Michael Janzen, of Ti...

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How to make hot sauce

Mrs. Homegrown

May 12, 2015

Fermentation, Food, Recipes

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...lt, and it is fermented to bring out the flavor. I don’t subscribe to any particular school of sauce, but this is the easiest sauce to make for my purposes. The outcome of the recipe depends mostly on your choice of pepper, but also a bit on how much vinegar you put in it, and what type of vinegar, and whether you strain it or leave it chunky. We used fresh red peppers labeled Anaheim peppers (kind of like a red New Mexico chile), which are mild,...

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