Butter Making Demo at the Natural History Museum

Join us for what I promise will be the Burning Man of butter making this Friday evening at the Natural History Museum. We’ll be doing a hands-on shake your own butter demo with live drummers. Best of all it’s freeeeeeeeeeeee, but you need to RSVP. And there’s more: MUSIC with COASTIN (5-7 pm) and Evan Weiss from Junk (7-9pm) BUTTER MAKING with authors, Erik Knutzen & Kelly Coyne (*timed-ticket required) POTTING SUCCULENTS (*timed-ticket required)...

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Making It Available in Overdrive App

...ecreational library visit, my favorite librarian informed me that our book Making It is available for download in the Overdrive app. Ego boosted! Many public libraries, in addition to books, now have a long list of digital gewgaws, apps and resources. One of those apps is Overdrive, which allows you to download eBooks, videos and audio books to your digital devices for free. Over 30,000 libraries worldwide use Overdrive to distribute materials. To...

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Saturday Tweets: How about we all make some beer vinegar in a thatched dome?

How to Make Beer Vinegar https://t.co/0dsSivOLU8 via @Hank_Shaw pic.twitter.com/o4DHwgLyQj — Emily Han (@misschiffonade) February 27, 2016 Building A Primitive Thatched Dome Hut From Scratch https://t.co/xBRYowES23 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 27, 2016 Garden Flags with Shibori and Permanent Dye | Garden Rant https://t.co/O003TFYcqL — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 26, 2016 The world's most frugal man: https://t.co/iraYtFUj2W via...

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A Simple Beer Can Stove

...http://vimeo.com/64726512 There’s lots of variations on the beer can stove out on the interwebs. This is a nice one in that it can be made with just a pocket knife as opposed to the more complicated Pepsi can stove we blogged about back in 2006. If you have a favorite stove project leave a comment . . . Via the folks at Zapf Architectural Renderings....

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