How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love the Vegan Cheese

August 20, 2018

...s taught by forager and author Pascal Bauder (a guest on episode 89 of the podcast). His vegan cheese method is nothing short of moon shot vegan culinary genius. I’m not going to give away the secret on this blog–you’re going to have to take his class. One hint: it involves a simple fermentation. I know many of you don’t live here, but Pascal’s classes are worth traveling long distances to attend. He’s got another vegan cheese class coming up on A...

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Shed Factoids and Resources

Mr. Homegrown

July 9, 2018

Design

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...gal, living space. Inexpensive Pre-fab Johnny Sanphillippo, a guest on our podcast mentioned a shed he installed in a rental property he owns. He went with Cedar Shed but, for his second shed project he’s getting a Tuff Shed from Home Depot. Modernist Shedcraft Though not a modernist myself, I really like what this YouTuber did with a Tuff Shed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnSew-tCuPo I also like this modernist shed from the, sadly, defunct Re...

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Getting Ourselves Back to the Garden

Mr. Homegrown

June 26, 2018

Design, Gardening

...w, founder of Environmental Changemakers (and a guest on episode 33 of the podcast) and The Rev. Peter Rood, Rector of Holy Nativity. The garden has since metastasized from the side of the church’s building to the front and worked its way into the fringes of the small parking lot. A large adobe oven was added and bread and pizza baking events and classes take place on the second Saturday of the month. Recently, part of the front lawn became a comm...

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Life in a Pandemic

Mr. Homegrown

April 27, 2020

Thoughtstylings

16 Comments

...future holds. There are simply too many variables to know what will happen in the coming months. Will we have another wave infections? Will governments bail out corporations or individuals? Will we have a recession or depression? Will there be a revived interest in urban homesteading or will we go back to shopping and consuming? I’m wary of suggesting a silver lining in this crisis. For many, around the world, it will just be awful. I’m curious ho...

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Worst of NextDoor

Mr. Homegrown

February 28, 2020

Thoughtstylings

14 Comments

...nity is somehow more “open minded” than other parts of the country or that urban people are more progressive than rural people. These are stereotypes that I’ve been guilty of harboring in the past. We are all, myself included, easily sucked into the sort of hateful trolling that Silicon Valley has found a way to monetize on social media. How do you keep people glued to a website like NextDoor? Just offer the spectacle of your elder neighbors teari...

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