Saturday Tweets: #FlyingLess, VHS Making a Comeback and Alanis Morissette Impressions

March 24, 2018

...witter.com/a5B7J0aHX1 — Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) March 19, 2018 VHS is making a comeback https://t.co/cankAKwcRR — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 20, 2018 The auto industry has already established primacy over our cities. Now they want primacy over our bodies too? Enough. Tech solutions with dubious ethical implications don’t give us the future I want to live in. https://t.co/WbypKPrr0F — Eric Bruins (@ejfbruins) March 22, 2018 Love Dan Pears...

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Saturday Linkages: Speedos, Blue Eggs and the Rise of Rye

Mr. Homegrown

September 21, 2013

Saturday Linkages

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A rancher of the future according to the 1981 children’s book Tomorrow’s Home. Trojan Horses, Recipes, and Permaculture http://www.patternliteracy.com/770-trojan-horses-recipes-and-permaculture … How bad for the environment are gas-powered leaf blowers? http://wapo.st/14bgqIQ In Pursuit of Tastier Chickens, a Strict Diet of Four-Star Scraps http://nyti.ms/15yN8EY Rye’s Rise: New Loaves That Are More Than a Vehicle for Pastrami http://shar.es/i9wr...

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Saturday Linkages: Composting People, Jujubes, Bumpy Eggs and More

Mr. Homegrown

September 20, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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A conceptual drawing of the Urban Death Project’s human composting operation. Composting human remains, the Urban Death Project (we like the idea but are not sure about their carbon to nitrogen ratios!) #funeralindustry http://www.urbandeathproject.org/#home Holy Scrap: Jujube to Syrup http://blog.holyscraphotsprings.com/2014/09/jujube-to-syrup.html?spref=tw … The Secret to Keeping Rosemary Alive Indoors http://tinyurl.com/qa64mnv via @TenthAcreF...

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Return of the Egg

Mrs. Homegrown

January 22, 2013

Miscellaneous

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...(Phoebe is doing very well, by the way.) Two of the hens lay with speckled eggs, two lay solid. Their eggs are this unusual, olive drab sort of color, which is difficult to capture with the camera. Our hens are hybrids: a Barnavelder/Americauna cross. We call them WinnetekaVelders. The olive eggs must have something to do with the blending of green egg and brown egg genes. Happy as I am about the eggs, their re-appearance means our too-short winte...

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Perfect Scrambled Eggs

Mr. Homegrown

March 27, 2015

Food

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...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUP7U5vTMM0 I really don’t like TV chefs. I especially don’t like TV chefs who have reality shows. But, I have to admit, Gordan Ramsay’s scrambled egg method works really well. The results are similar to Ruhlman’s method, but less trouble....

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