Saturday Linkages: A Difficult Week

May 30, 2020

...itself COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital Holding the Vision: Collecting the Art of the Book in the Industrial North West (museum exhibit in a series of blog posts) Mystery as 60 peculiar cubes with inscriptions pulled from Coventry river Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels? The Complete Guide to Creating Your Personal Makerspace (Via Eric of Garden Fork) Infectious Bronchitis In Chickens: Another Coronavirus My friend found a listing for...

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Bonfire of the Billys

Mr. Homegrown

January 27, 2020

Design

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...y felt wronged. After a few months I let them do what they do best: fall apart. Then I started building shelves for our home. I came to the same conclusion he reaches in the intro to his book that, in order to have decent furniture that doesn’t cost an obscene amount of money you have to learn to make it yourself. Schwartz runs a small publishing company, Lost Art Press, that produces books as beautiful as they are useful. He has pioneered a elega...

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Bozos in Space

Mr. Homegrown

December 13, 2019

Thoughtstylings

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...blic funds pour into its own bank accounts. Amazon has grown enormous, in part, by shirking tax responsibility. The government rewards this failure with massive contracts, which will make the company even bigger. But, as the article points out, all of us Amazon Prime members pay a sort of tax every year. It turns out that tax may not make sense from a home economics standpoint: When Amazon first created Prime, in 2005, Bezos insisted that the pric...

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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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Saturday Linkages: Trash Panda Paradise

Mr. Homegrown

November 23, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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Image: @scarytoilet Jessie Newbery: embroidery as art Reflections on Larry Korn’s Passing, the Preciousness of Elders, Friendship, Love, Kindness, Care How to Say I Love You in Greenlandic An Arctic Alphabet The Secret to a Perfect Hot Glue Mold Planting the Natural Garden a new book by Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen Poor Man’s Quinoa Bernie Sanders, filmstrip entrepreneur This year, why not serve your turkey with green maraschino cherries and wa...

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