How to make your soup wonderful: Wild food soup stock

March 26, 2013

Food, Food Preservation, Foraging, How-to

We’ve mentioned urban foragers and foodie extraordinaires Pascal Baudard and Mia Wasilevic before. They not only forage food, but go on to make really good stuff with it. One of their websites is Urban Outdoor Skills, and I like to go there to check out a section called the Food Lab, where they talk about food products they’re experimenting with, and give how-to’s. A few months ago Erik brought home a beautiful bouquet of nettles. I decided to tr...

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Cycling in the US from a Dutch perspective

Mr. Homegrown

September 4, 2013

Bikes, Transportation

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...and it gathered widespread support among mainstream commentators and young urban political activists. In Amsterdam in the early 1970s, there were already organisations with the aims of demotorising cities, improving public transport, preventing the bulldozing of heritage sites and controlling pollution. These campaigners opposed the statist interventions of the Left and the laissez-faire economics of the Right, both of which they felt threatened t...

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2018: The Year in Review

Mr. Homegrown

December 31, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...s with blog posts on the Thanksgiving holiday, squirrels eating all of our fruit, hoarding food and books, smart phones, junk mail, open floor plans, as well as proof that I’ve gone full Luddite. Speaking of old Ned Ludd, the most commented upon post was the one in which I announced the deletion of my Facebook account. Let me note that I’ve not regretted it one bit and please allow me to toot my prognosticational horn by noting how news about Face...

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Saturday Tweets: Bad Data and Cats

Mr. Homegrown

January 12, 2019

Saturday Linkages

...ries, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1908 pic.twitter.com/gQ3VHURtYH — old fruit pictures (@pomological) January 11, 2019 Franciscus versus his evil opponents. pic.twitter.com/t0a35Kofzg — JESUSISM (@OfCatholics) January 11, 2019 Sad if environmentalists wax poetic about electric individual vehicles rather than examine a basic mass-transit approach. Good for private car capitalists' profits but neither necessary nor justifiable economically, e...

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Saturday Tweets: Under New York, Moths and Caturday

Mr. Homegrown

January 26, 2019

Saturday Linkages

...emotional support bicycles” do you think airlines would stop charging extra for flying with them? — Bicycle Lobby (@BicycleLobby) January 25, 2019 terret monstre grapes, painted by amanda almira newton, 1914 pic.twitter.com/jsL3dCRIcy — old fruit pictures (@pomological) January 26, 2019 Happy #Caturdaypic.twitter.com/VPNxplL6MP — Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) January 26, 2019 Demon with bad breath @GallicaBnF Ms-1186 f. 65r pic.twitter.com/CrUNSOXp...

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