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The Austrian Scythe is the New Weed Whacker

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Tools
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...it’s crucial that your scythe fit your height. Scythe use is intellectual for me since years worth of mulching, a dry climate and a very small yard means that I don’t have any stands of weeds to knock down or wheat to harvest. But, if I had a large yard and grass to deal with, I’d dump the weed whacker in a heartbeat. For more info see Scythe Supply’s Scythe faq Drawing from www.thescytheshop.co.uk....

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Adobe in Action Interior and Exterior Plastering Online Course Begins on Monday, Sept. 1st

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Appropriate Technology, Events
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...ques sifting & preparing & mixing soil and aggregates for earthen plasters wheat paste production for strengthening mud plasters casein production for lime paints natural exterior earthen plaster stabilization techniques (lime, cactus juice) hand application techniques of earthen plasters (base coats, patching) hawk & trowel application of earthen and lime plasters (leveling and finish coats) basic earthen plaster ingredients and recipes basic lim...

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How to Bake a Traditional German Rye Bread

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Bread, Fermentation, Food, How-to, Recipes
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...for approximately 3 hours. Note that rye ferments considerably faster than wheat. Baking A half hour before you’re ready to bake, pre-heat your oven and a dutch oven or combo cooker to 475º F. Just before you’re ready to bake, turn the oven down to 450º F. Put the boule into the dutch oven and cover. This style of bread is not slashed. Bake, covered, for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes remove the cover from your dutch oven and bake for another 20 min...

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The KoMo FlicFloc

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Food
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...field theory. And it’s all thanks to an impulse purchase at an awesome new homesteading supply shop in our neighborhood, The King’s Roost. My credit card discharged from my pocket like ectoplasm at a 19th century seance when I spotted the KoMo FlicFloc. The FlicFloc manually flakes oats, wheat, rye, barley, millet, spelt, rice, sesame, flax seed, poppy and spices. The breakfast possibility it opened to me? Fresh muesli is thy name. Finally a filli...

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