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Cold brewed tisanes, teas and coffee: Your summertime best friends

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Food, Foraging, Herbs
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...ried nettle cold brew. Cold brewed nettles taste a little less like a cook vegetable than hot brewed nettles. Sometimes I mix nettles and mint half and half, to make the nettles a little more sprightly. Extreme wonkery over iced tea and iced coffee I am a lazy person. I enjoy sitting in my proverbial armchair and reading about other people’s obsessive quests to make things like the perfect cold brewed iced tea, but when it comes time to make it my...

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Stop Digging! The Benefits of No-Till and Cover Crops

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...mercial agriculture I think it’s safe to extrapolate their results to home vegetable gardens. The latest issue of California Agriculture sums up the study, Symbiotrophic fungi expand the surface area of roots, allowing roots greater access to water and nutrients (in exchange for carbon). Fungi, however, are more sensitive than other microorganisms to physical disturbance. Adopting no-till as a conservation management practice eliminates or greatly...

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Saturday Tweets: Christmas Eve Edition

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Saturday Linkages
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...QuVo — Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) December 20, 2016 Is your #Christmas cactus an impostor? Probably! Find out what it really is! #garden #houseplant #holiday https://t.co/qogcJNggqm pic.twitter.com/4qsmEgfBsZ — John Porter (@WVgardenguru) December 19, 2016 It's time to plant your winter vegetable garden (and gloat on Facebook) https://t.co/fOOnYZXiNl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 19, 2016 Life In Nara Through Japan’s 72 Microsea...

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My New Thoughtstyling Throne

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Design
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...he BarcaLounger which shows you how far this American Empire has declined. Making Stickley’s #336 involved an nerve racking steam bending process. The wood went in a makeshift box fed with steam from a wallpaper steamer. After an hour in the steamer the wood was quickly rushed to a form made with plywood. I had to actually sit on the arm to get it to bend. On the first attempt the arm broke and I had to do it all over again. When I was done with t...

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Solar Oven Triumph: Fluffy Egg Strata

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Recipes, Solar, Solar Oven Summer
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...how long any dish should spend in the oven. Imagine if back when you were making your first batch of cookies, your mom’s old Betty Crocker told you they would be done anywhere between one and four hours. Or perhaps the recipe would not even include a time or temperature recommendation, but just said the cookies would be done when they were done. Can you imagine your tears? Welcome to solar cooking. Recipes are guidelines or even hints rather than...

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