028 Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes

December 10, 2014

...ding Radical Homemakers, Long Way on a Little and The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook. She has a new book of essays called Homespun Mom Comes Unraveled, a smart, funny, moving account of the challenges and joys of living the DIY life. Shannon also raises grassfed livestock on her family’s Sap Bush Hollow Farm. You can find her books (in both hard copy and ebook formats) and farm products on her website, theradicalhomemaker.net. During the podcast we dis...

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Saturday Linkages: Pallets, Ladybugs and Portlandia

Mr. Homegrown

August 30, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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...chicks wearing muffin wrappers as tutus! http://www.recyclart.org/2014/08/little-chicks-wearing-muffin-wrappers-tutus/ … The Flight of the Ladybugs http://www.theawl.com/2014/08/the-flight-of-the-ladybugs … The Portlandia Activity Book http://boingboing.net/2014/08/25/the-portlandia-activity-book.html … World made by bigots http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-08-27/world-made-by-bigots … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter:...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Crickets and Making Coffee

Mr. Homegrown

October 17, 2015

Saturday Linkages

.../t.co/JoT6NiV3x8 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 15, 2015 We love this book by @ThomasRainerDC – the very best book on landscape design! https://t.co/cCIJ2a99mJ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 14, 2015 Architectural Cast Concrete: Wall Caps, Column Caps, and Fireplace Hearth and Mantel http://t.co/2vkxERYxbq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 14, 2015 Kelly declares that–thanks to global warming–pants are now completely optional. #glassis...

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Trading our Home for a Dome

Mr. Homegrown

July 29, 2014

Design

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...in the US) and leak like crazy. Lloyd Kahn, who wrote a bestselling how-to book on building domes in the 1960s, became so disenchanted with them that he pulled his own bestselling book from print. That said, they have an otherworldly and transcendent vibe that, in the case of the pictures that accompany the real estate listing, seem to have inspired the seller to paint some trippy outsider art. The kitchen, on the other hand, looks like a ten minu...

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Josey Baker’s Awesome Adventure Bread (gluten free!)

Mrs. Homegrown

May 19, 2014

Bread, Food

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...when I really want to try something. One thing I really wanted out of this book was a loaf of what Baker calls “Adventure Bread” which by the photo looked to be trail mix in loaf form. Baker says he developed it in response to the many requests he received for gluten-free bread. Wisely, he decided that instead of trying to replicate real bread without gluten, he’d make something entirely different. It works. It’s made of nuts, seeds and oats, mois...

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