Moldy Grapes!

...elf!]. I found a recipe attributed to Sally Fallon which called for no pre-cooking at all, just pickling in whey and salt. I saw others that recommended pressure canning and I don’t have a pressure canner. What I ended up doing was blanching the grape leaves before I pickled them, hoping that would soften them up some, but not so much that they would disintegrate when rolled. I was sure to only pick the youngest, freshest leaves. I should have don...

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Gardening in an Apartment Windowsill

...“a curryish plant that is awfully nice for smelling but underwhelming for cooking.” Read an interview with Helen about this garden here. Gardening is not about the quantity of space one controls or the weight of the food harvested. It’s about a love for beauty, an attention to detail and an appreciation of good food. Imagine if all our unused or neglected urban spaces were as beautiful and useful as Helen’s garden. We’d live in a world transforme...

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Low-Tech Magazine

...ur favorite articles: How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware How to Downsize a Transportation Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow If We Insulate Our Houses, Why Not Our Cooking Pots? Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, Not Spaces Recycling Animal and Human Dung is the Key to Sustainable Farming...

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Saturday Tweets: Compacted Soil, Bikes and Mirrored Headboards

...ght — Ed Joyce (@EdJoyce) March 24, 2016 Spirituality of food: how mindful cooking can spark gratitude – https://t.co/UiWCXxN4qr @binderpdx pic.twitter.com/ZMxkLYLO6U — Danielle Nierenberg (@DaniNierenberg) March 24, 2016 Lack of bike lanes & wrong way riding account for 13.6% of older adult fatalities in LA. Data busts stereotypes. #visionzero @VisionZeroLA — LACntyBikeCoalition (@lacbc) March 24, 2016 More plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. (...

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Urban Farming in Oakland

...iew with urban farmer and writer Novella Carpenter. Carpenter has pigs, goats, ducks, chickens and more all on a small lot in Oakland, California. You can listen to the radio interview here (along with some other interesting segments on hunting caribou, cooking pasta, roasting peppers, and more) on chef Evan Kleiman’s show Good Food. You can also check out Carpenter’s blog, meaningfulpursuit.com. We especially like Carpenter’s advice to take small...

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