Shoemaking Advice?

September 13, 2013

...ave any of you made your own shoes? I’m looking for good resources on shoe making: books, videos, etc. I’d also love to hear stories of successes or failures or lessons learned. I’d like to make leather, soft-soled shoes as first project perhaps moccasins, perhaps something more structured. I have two books right now. One is Shoes for Free People, by David & Inger Runk, published in 1976 in Santa Cruz. As you might expect, it is highly groovy. And...

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Weekend Linkages: Curry, Cats and Palm Trees

Mr. Homegrown

May 12, 2024

Saturday Linkages

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...How to Make Japanese Curry Roux Michigan woman found living inside rooftop store sign with desk and coffee maker Don’t be a palm, be an oak Happy Eurovision to those who celebrate Cat chase POV Cats with checkbooks...

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More on Federico Tobon

Mr. Homegrown

August 28, 2017

Animals, Bees, Cats, Podcasts

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...n some of the things we talked about during the podcast, specifically the type of CNC router he uses (the ShapeOko 2 ), his social media rules, a video proving that he’s trained his cats (!), his hand sewn bike messenger bag and a shot of the LA Eco Village rooftop beehive. We talked for hours before and after recording and could talk for many more. Topics of future conversations could include, for instance, the clever milk crate drawers below the...

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Taters and Cool Season Veggies from the Original GRGers

Mr. Homegrown

May 21, 2009

Gardening, Self Watering Containers, Vegetable Gardening

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...Got to hang out with Chicago’s amazing Green Roof Growers yesterday. More on that when I get back. But, just wanted to share GRG operative Bruce F’s non-roof based potato growing experiment. Also, check out GRGers Heidi and Art’s rooftop cool season vegetables which I had the good fortune of tasting....

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Tomato Review #2 Banana Legs – it don’t look like a banana and it don’t got legs

Mr. Homegrown

August 4, 2008

Gardening, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening

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...r the sides of the planter, probably reducing our yield. Here’s the way we normally cage our tomatoes when we’re not too busy blogging. You can also check out Bruce F’s nice staking system for his rooftop garden in Chicago. Verdict: we gotta get some of those Power’s Heirloom seeds next season, but I’ll save a few of the Banana Legs seeds for the sake of variety....

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