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114 Will of The Weekend Homestead on Fire Safety

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Podcasts
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On the podcast this week I talk to Will of the The Weekend Homestead about fire safety and life on his rural Wisconsin getaway. Will is a former firefighter and avid YouTuber and reached out to me to respond to a post I did on open floor plans and fires. During the podcast we talk about: Christmas fire safety–keep that tree watered! Smoke detectors Fire extinguishers and how to use them Common causes of residential fires What it’s like to be a fi...

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How do I get started baking bread?

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Bread, Food
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...confusing. Best of all, Baker emphasizes whole grain, sourdough fermented breads. Baker has summarized all the popular methods out there right now in one place. Want to make a New York Times no-knead/Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day type loaf? No problem, that’s the first loaf in Baker’s book. Want to make a Tartine style loaf without reading a hundred pages of directions? No problem, that’s also in the book. Wan’t to graduate on to a style of...

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What You Need to Bake Bread

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Bread, Food
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...to simply referring people to Josey’s Baker’s excellent book, Josey Baker Bread. In the hopes of one final post on the subject let me suggest the following bread related resources and tools: Bake With Baker Again, get yourself a copy of Baker’s book. It’s a class in baking organized into recipes in ascending order of difficulty. Work your way thought the book and by the end you’ll be a baking god and the life of every party. Baker is a fan of who...

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Learn to Bake Your Own Bread! Fall Classes With Dana Morgan and Linda Preuss

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Bread, Events, Food
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...ed of crappy supermarket bread? Don’t like paying $10 for a loaf of decent bread? How about learning to bake your own bread? I can’t think of any better teachers than my friends Dana Morgan and Linda Preuss. They have three classes coming up: October 22 Tartine-Style Sourdough—30% Whole Grain November 12 100% Whole Grain Breads—Blending Varietal Grains December 10 Baking with Spelt—100% Spelt Breads If that’s not enough incentive, each class break...

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Urban Homesteading: What Went Wrong

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Thoughtstylings
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...es of future posts I’d like to look back at the ideas in our two books The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World. I’ll consider both the broader ideas in the books as well as what might have changed in terms of specific methods in subjects such as gardening and beekeeping. First let me peel back the curtain for those of you have have never written a book and describe how awkward and weird it can be to read your o...

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