2014: The Year in Review

December 29, 2014

...h. October I Made Shoes In October we hosted an intense three day turnshoe making workshop with Randy Fritz. This was one of the more commented upon things we did this year. I ran into Randy over the holidays and he promised to return for another workshop in 2015. November Compostible Holiday Decor Kelly did an amazing job decorating the house for Christmas this year. No more cheap plastic crap! December Who Killed the Non-Electric Toaster One hig...

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Saturday Tweets: Don’t Fear the Green Reaper

Mr. Homegrown

February 2, 2019

Saturday Linkages

...for @medium https://t.co/MiTvTW6rxE — douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) January 31, 2019 This is SO good pic.twitter.com/NJRNtneNSo — Ellie Mae O’Hagan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@MissEllieMae) January 29, 2019 Ariana Grande got a Kanji tattoo she thought meant “seven rings” but actually means “small charcoal grill” https://t.co/CZNjQUWu7d — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 30, 2019 The Democrats Are Climate Deniers: https://t.co/KBb3grWNH2 — Root Simple (@rootsimple)...

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Everything Must Go: Tidying Up at the Root Simple Compound

Mrs. Homegrown

January 9, 2015

Cleaning, Domesticus, Tidying up

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...oint we remembered a book one of our readers mentioned, and which has been making the publicity rounds of late, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by the tidying consultant Marie Kondo (aka KonMari–her method is called the KonMari Method). She’s from Japan, where people have the same hearty consumerist impulses as we do here in the U.S., but considerably less space for storage. When I first read about the book, I understood the gist of it, but...

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Ghee for the skin

Mrs. Homegrown

January 30, 2015

Body Care, Herbal Medicine

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...he way it feels. More will follow, I am sure. I’m going to experiment with making body butter and lip balm with it. Do any of you use ghee for medicine or skin care? (Also, I’ll be making my own ghee soon, and will post on that, but in the meantime, there are loads of recipes for it out there. It’s basically just boiled butter–anybody can make it. You can also find it ghee in many “regular” super markets these days, as well as in health food store...

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De-Cluttering for DIYers, Homesteaders, Artists, Preppers, etc.

Mrs. Homegrown

February 9, 2015

Cleaning, Tidying up

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...re is always something messy going on. For us, relaxation is tinkering and making and cooking and repairing, not reclining on our immaculate sofa, quietly tapping on our iPad. And while we’re aware that other people might accumulate random, useless consumer toys and frippery, we are confident that we don’t…er…mostly. Or if we have, those sorts of things are easy enough to part with. Our weakness lies elsewhere. We accumulate tools and supplies–mor...

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