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Earth Building Classes!

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...s were made on site by students using native soil, and they’ve been baking bread and making pizza with ingredients grown on-site! It was great to work with such an enthusiastic group – cooking with dirt is more than mud pies! Got something going on?: Drop us a line! We’re anxious to hear about new projects, preservation efforts, classes and folks doing recreational or professional adobe work in California. There’s a lot of people in our community...

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2022 in Review: Cats, Mushrooms and Politics

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Thoughtstylings
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...orhood. I call this one the Death Star. I got lazy and did not make enough bread. This one is one of the only loaves I baked. On one of my many Pomona pet sitting sojourns I discovered an abandoned sushi buffet shaped like a boat. And a brutalist Baptist church. You’ll also find this mysterious, unmarked business. While in Pomona I took a zoom class on how to draw cartoon characters. The instructor had us draw Spiderman. He did it by leading us th...

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The Sound is Forced, the Notes are Few

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Thoughtstylings
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...he years have proven useful in this crapular period. I’m happy to have the bread making, coffee roasting, carpentry and other skills to fall back on. I guess I’ll have to do some negotiations with the muses on how to write about those skills. At the same time there’s an alternate history universe in which Kelly and I are more lacking in morals and better at the business side of things. In that universe we would have capitalized on the success of o...

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Make Your Own Damn Cheese

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Food, Recipes
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...separated from the liquid which is called whey. You place the curds in a piece of cloth, and suspend it over a bowl in the refrigerator. The next day the cheese is ready to form in a mold and serve. The verdict on Homegrown Revolution‘s cheesemaking experiments–though urban cheesemaking is somewhat costly due to the high price of raw milk, it’s very satisfying to know that we can make our own cheese and patronize dairies that have more ethical st...

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Stirred, Not Shaken

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Biodynamics, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...ties us to nature and I look forward to stirring preparations and perhaps making them with a few close friends. In fact, I’m much more excited about making preparations than it buying a package through the mail. Steiner’s set of herbs all grow well here and many of them I have already. But a cow is kinda hard to come by in Los Angeles. While it may be heresy to some, perhaps we’ll have to come up with some modifications to the rituals that make s...

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