Book Review: The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic and Peak Oil

October 31, 2012

Phoebe says that despite her midnight coat and lambent eyes, she has nothing whatsoever to do with magic. Or peak oil. And for the record, she also scorns Halloween. What do magic and peak oil have to do with one another? Quite a lot, actually, if you believe the author, John Michael Greer. And if you read The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic and Peak Oil you’ll probably come to agree with him, because in this book, as in all of his writing,...

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Saturday Linkages: Fueling Up

Mr. Homegrown

October 27, 2012

Saturday Linkages

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Only in India DIY Six ways to reuse plastic mesh bags: http://collectedquotidian.com/2012/10/21/six-ways-to-reuse-plastic-mesh-produce-bags/ … How I Work: I’m Mark Frauenfelder, Editor-In-Chief of MAKE Magazine, and This Is How I Work – http://lifehacker.com/5954275/im-mark-frauenfelder-editor+in+chief-of-make-magazine-and-this-is-how-i-work … Free Heat for Your Home: Homemade Briquettes and Logs http://naturalbuildingblog.com/free-heat-for-your-...

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Campfire Cooking: Fish in Clay (& Vegetarian Options!)

Mrs. Homegrown

December 26, 2013

Food, Foraging

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...nce the process is the same. You can dress sturdy veggies like carrots and baby potatoes with fat and herbs, wrap them with leaves, cover that with clay and throw it on the coals. Pascal also recommended trying fruit, like pears. He likes pears with native California black sage. Better still, you can skip the clay and use grass instead, which is much easier for impromptu cooking. Grass is good insulator, maybe not good enough for a delicate trout,...

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Saturday Tweets: Rainy Day Tweets

Mr. Homegrown

December 8, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼 (@Pegerella) December 3, 2018 Oh, the beauty of seeing a Canadian baby being born. pic.twitter.com/SBmO8FBMK1 — Lloyd Legalist (@LloydLegalist) December 2, 2018 The gilet jaunes protests are geographically portentous- suburban and rural protestors angry at a city that both represents and materially benefits from elites’ decisions on who should pay for climate change mitigation. — david a banks (@DA_Banks) December 3, 2018 I’ve watched thi...

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Homegrown San Francisco Events

Mr. Homegrown

March 31, 2009

Events

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...ood when you don’t have any dirt to call your own. The Studio for Urban Projects is located at 3579 17th St., San Francisco (between Dolores & Guerrero). Also, in San Francisco this coming weekend make sure to catch the folks at How To Homestead on Saturday, April 4 at the Other Cinema at 8:30 PM for some brand new homesteading movies, homebrew tastings, and the “butt-shaking musical antics of the Goat Family.” The Other Cinema is located at ATA G...

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