Joshua Tree Earthen Oven Class

October 19, 2012

Events

...be, this class is not to be missed. Here’s info on the class: Joshua Tree Earthen Oven Class November 2–4, 2012 Earthen ovens are inexpensive to build, fun to use, and provide baking environment impossible to recreate in the kitchen. This Fall, Kurt Gardella returns to California for three days to teach you how to make your own earthen oven. Kurt has built dozens of these ovens in New Mexico, and has great expertise in both adobe construction and...

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Inuit Fermentation: Animal-based & Archaic

Mr. Homegrown

June 9, 2021

Events, Fermentation, Food, Food Preservation

Probably the most memorable trip I’ve ever taken was a business/art junket to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. While there I had the great privilege of hanging out with Inuit people who shared their food traditions, songs and stories. So I’m especially excited about the last North Carolina State Fermentology seminar this Thursday, June 10th at 12PM ET: Inuit Fermentation: Animal-based & Archaic As part of the Arctic Indigenous diet, Inuit fermente...

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More Thoughts on Thinning the Library

Mr. Homegrown

January 16, 2015

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...of the websites, or “book rings” in which books travel in a set order to participants who want to read a certain book. The community aspect of BookCrossing.com has grown and expanded in ways that were not expected at the outset, in the form of blog or forum discussions, mailing lists and annual conventions throughout the world. For me, Bookcrossing confirms our hidden animistic view of our possessions. I’m not sure this facilitates getting rid of...

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Romanesco broccoli cameo lights up Star Wars film

Mrs. Homegrown

December 30, 2015

Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening

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...h food, so it’s interesting that the film makers decided to include it as part of the scenery. The only other edible in the movie is special effect-based alien food–I won’t be spoilery and say any more about that. The Star Wars world isn’t posited as our future world, as the Star Trek world is–it’s a mythic world, somewhere long ago and far away. I doubt we’d ever see Han Solo noshing on a hot dog, for instance, whereas I can totally imagine Kirk...

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Our Amazon Problem

Mr. Homegrown

August 24, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...n noted that when a new technology takes over, what it replaces becomes an art form. I have a sense that, with so much time devoted to staring at screens, people will increasingly want the peace and focus that comes with holding a beautiful book in one’s hands. This is where you can help by answering, in the comments, a few questions I have: If we were to start self-publishing short how-to books would you want them in an inexpensive ebook format o...

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