Search Results for: label/mushrooms/2011/04/making-it

506 results

Weekend Linkages: Monday Edition

Avatar photo
Saturday Linkages
3 Comments
...Beware the dangers of mochi Open plan poops A really nice bamboo structure Intro to Cassette Recorder Operation, Maintenance, and Repair Ultimate SodaStream Mod for Endless Seltzer True Crime Is Rotting Our Brains A thread on the state of COVID How to Grow Paddy Straw Mushrooms – Volvariella volvacea...

Read…

Seaweed Foraging

Avatar photo
Food, Foraging
1 Comment
...for seaweed is a lot simpler than my recent, rekindled interest in edible mushrooms. In California there are no poisonous seaweeds, just ones that taste better than others. In this class we focused on Kombu, Laminaria setchellii a California version of the closely related seaweed that the Japanese harvest (Kombu is just the Japanese word for kelp). You can use Kombu in Japanese recipes, as a flavoring in soups and stews, as well as a substitute f...

Read…

Building a Makeshift Treadmill Desk

Avatar photo
Fitness
1 Comment
...or a couple of hours before wandering around on the way down searching for mushrooms or shed antlers). It’s convenient and since I hate gyms, it means I actually get some exercise on a regular basis. Are you using it to type this? Yes, although I’m standing on the side rails … Say something about your blog/homestead/books . . . I’m the author of the novel Place Last Seen (Picador USA, 2000), and have been blogging at Livingsmallblog.com since 2002...

Read…

Dome Building

Avatar photo
Design
2 Comments
...inster Fuller influenced forms seem to just spring from the landscape like mushrooms after a particularly wet winter. Perhaps the idealism of folks interested in saving the world, especially do-it-yourself types, lends itself to visionary solutions. But these same dome building visionaries are also known for leaky, impractical, expensive and ugly geodesic domes draped in ill-fitting brown asphalt roofing material. There are some basic problems wit...

Read…