DIY Portable Pizza Oven

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QToDg3Ow0 I just spoke with Eric Rochow of GardenFork.TV .(He’ll be our guest on the next podcast.) If you don’t know Gardenfork, you should. Eric has put together a lot of cool videos and podcasts. One of my favorite is this portable pizza oven. I’m thinking of building one for local events. For more info on Eric’s pizza oven check out his pizza oven page....

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Bee Idle

...he only email newsletter I actually bother to read even though most of the events are taking place half a world away in London. Here’s the opening paragraph of their recent email missive: Dear Idlers Good day. I am glad to report that the sun is out in west London, and that I saw a bee buzzing out of a daffodil in our front yard earlier today. Such activity and colour boosts the spirits, and though the techno-utopians in San Francisco and the econ...

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Learn to Build with Adobe

...e Los Angeles Bread Bakers has been holding monthly bread and pizza baking events at The Westchester Community Oven in west LA, which was built through a series of AiNS workshops and in collaboration with artist Beth Ann Morrison and Environmental Change Makers. Stop by if you are interested in bread baking, or seeing a earthen horno in action, RSVP and bring your dough! Got something going on? Have a project and want to host a workshop?: Drop us...

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The Most Attractive Cargo Bike in the World

...ink is the most handsome cargo bike I’ve ever seen. It’s one of the delivery bikes for the Portland based (of course) Trailhead Coffee Roasters. They also seem to have an equally attractive mobile brew bike that you can rent out for events. Though not as pretty, I’m still very happy with my Xtracycle cargo bike and use it for hardware store runs and to avoid the fistfights that break out over parking at our local Trader Joes. Do you have a cargo b...

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