Moonlight Medicine Foraging Expedition!

...sed in herbal remedies. >>>> Nance Klehm is a radical ecologist, designer, urban forager, grower and teacher. Her solo and collaborative work focuses on creating participatory social ecologies in response to a direct experience of a place. She grows and forages much of her own food in a densely urban area. She actively composts food, landscape and human waste. She only uses a flush toilet when no other option is available. She designed and current...

Read…

Compost Outlaws

...rhood comrade Tara Kolla, who grows sweet peas for farmer’s markets in her urban backyard, has been busted for . . . composting! Specifically for composting fruit and vegetable scraps from a local restaurant. From last Friday’s Los Angeles Times: Tara Kolla said she was doing a good thing for her Silver Lake Farms business while doing the right thing for the planet by filling a garbage can each week with produce scraps from a nearby restaurant and...

Read…

Saturday Linkages: One Year Behind the Mask

...In Japan, His Disaster Art Saves Lives Dutch Oven Cornbread In Your Fireplace = Easy La La La La La La How grey was my valley: forgotten Welsh architecture – in pictures Elon Musk declared himself ‘technoking’. He’s just a hyper-capitalist clown Giving Up the Ghost: On the Legacy of Mark Fisher Rick Roderick – Self Under Siege Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things...

Read…

On Moldy Jam

...roducts hot into sterile Mason jars, leaving 1/4-inch headspace, seal with self-sealing lids, and process 5 minutes in a boiling-water canner Correct process time at higher elevations by adding 1 additional minute per 1,000 ft above sea level. If unsterile jars are used, the filled jars should be processed 10 minutes. Use of sterile jars is preferred, especially when fruits are low in pectin, since the added 5-minute process time may cause weak ge...

Read…

In Praise of Beaters

...ept, of course, there’s no car stereo. Just your cheap, existential little self and the sound of the not at all empty road. But why buy just one 1994 Nissan Sentra E retro time machine? They’re so cheap you might as well get ten, park them around town and have your own personal car share service. Why get on the bus when there’s a 1994 Nissan Sentra E waiting for you a few blocks over? Of course there’s the car free option. I’ve spent exactly two y...

Read…