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Inuit Fermentation: Animal-based & Archaic

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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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130 Farm Unfixed with Jessica Rath

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Animals, Bees, Gardening, Native Plants, Permaculture, Podcasts
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In her work artist Jessica Rath examines, as she puts it, “how human containment of the land effects non-human species from the propagation of agricultural plants to the sensoria of bees.” She is on the faculty of the Art Center College of Design and her previous projects include works about apple breeding, co-evolutionary communication between flowering plants and their pollinators and a long term project called Farm Unfixed that we spend most o...

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Our Amazon Problem

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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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Saturday Tweets: Bee Stings and Doughnuts

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Saturday Linkages
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...Eats — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 No-Fry Doughnuts, 1976 – A Vintage Halloween Recipe Re-Run https://t.co/uf03TU7PDs — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 Growing a jungle in a New York apartment: https://t.co/KTs7Y5vUXs — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 How to Treat a Bee Sting | The Art of Manliness https://t.co/g77bRwu7It — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016...

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Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Sundials

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Design
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...Ian Hamilton Finlay 1925-2006. On my long bucket list is the construction of a Root Simple sundial. Towards that end I’ve begun a short Sundial Pinterest board that, as of today, is entirely made up of Ian Hamilton Finlay sundials. Finlay’s poetry, art and gardening deserves greater recognition. The print of one of his sundials, above, is a clever meditation/pun on the distinction between the map and the territory. You can own an original Finlay p...

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