Making Tofu From Scratch at the Institute of Domestic Technology

June 9, 2014

...coffee roasting, bacon curing, bread baking, jam and exotic projects like making your own nocino and toothpaste. One of the perks of teaching at the IDT is getting to sit in on some of the other classes. The coffee roasting class changed my life. Now, every morning, I look forward to fresh coffee I roasted myself in a Whirley-Pop Popcorn maker. This past weekend I sat in a new IDT class taught by author Andrea Nguyen on how to make tofu from scra...

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Making Beer in Plain Language

Mr. Homegrown

December 14, 2008

Beer, Fermentation, Food

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...via the Bad Writing Contest Huh? At least the terminology surrounding beer making ain’t that obtuse, but it certainly could use some simplification. For novice home brewers, such as us here at Homegrown Evolution, the terminology creates an unnecessary barrier as impenetrable as a graduate school seminar in the humanities. Let’s see, there’s a mash, a mash tun, a wort, some sparging, malting, all the while specific gravities are measured and hopsi...

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Saturday Tweets: Coffee, Bees and Bog Butter

Mr. Homegrown

June 18, 2016

Saturday Linkages

...@WSJ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 15, 2016 The sculpture controlled by bees: Wolfgang Buttress’s Hive https://t.co/yaxUOy8O9P — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 17, 2016 A 67-Mile Hiking Trail Just Opened Through LA’s Urban Mountains https://t.co/tZg1QA0kEU — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 18, 2016 Building a #garden wash station https://t.co/7VDEZ3oIYD #gardening — Tenth Acre Farm (@tenthacrefarm) June 18, 2016 Giant 2,000-year-old hunk of bog...

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Saturday Tweets: Weeds, Bees and General Crankiness

Mr. Homegrown

June 2, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...ter.com/xsAz2Ktjs1 — Rascality Now (@rascalitynow) May 30, 2018 Count your bees with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning https://t.co/1tjD8uCaYb — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 1, 2018 The Silence of the Bugs https://t.co/rdRKfse7JW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 27, 2018 “America was just wiped out.” @nicolatwilley reports from the “Clade X” bioterror pandemic simulation exercise in Washington DC. https://t.co/iDmbVLItrh — Geoff Manaugh (@bldgb...

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Saturday Tweets: Bikes and Bees

Mr. Homegrown

July 2, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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It’s called the freedom hive because the bees are free to do as they please and keep their honey @BeeKindHives pic.twitter.com/PNn55C638h — Natural BK Trust (@NaturalBeeTrust) July 1, 2016 Usually a ride down Atlantic would be a white knuckle affair. This evening: bliss. #LBbikeplan @RobertGarciaLB pic.twitter.com/b5sOMH1pLl — Michael Muh Proof that you can surf in Montana: https://t.co/GGNI2LXTPN — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 2, 2016 ammad (@...

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