Picture Sundays: 3D Visions of Sauerkraut
From the Library of Congress Photo archive, “Visions of Sauerkraut” in glorious 3D. You can “freeview” this image without stereo glasses by learning the trick on this page....
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Picture Sundays: Bike Rim Dome
Bike wheel trellis via Homesteading/Survivalism. While it wouldn’t work with kids that like to climb, this is a nice use of bike rims. I could see it as a dome over another structure. No idea where this picture came from–it’s gone viral in homesteading circles–if you know, leave a comment....
Picture Sundays: Trout Smells Kraut
Somehow, in a post about a handy fermenter from the Farmer’s Kitchen, I failed to put up this shamelessly cute picture of our cat, Trout, interfering with the photo session. If you’d like more proof that the internet is some kind of million typing monkey/non-linear/collective unconsciousness generation machine, try typing “cat and sauerkraut” into Google. You get a fluffy and deaf white cat who loves sauerkraut. We can...
Picture Sundays: A Handy Handyman
Kelly found a soggy flyer on a sidewalk near our house. The front showed a picture of a man with a mullet hairstyle holding a trophy below a headline “Best Handyman.” On the back said handyman promised the services you can see above. I laughed, then realized that it was my exact jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none set of skills. Well, except for “hydrophany” and gutters. And you’ll have to go to Kelly for both the fi...
Picture Sundays: Good News and Dog Carts
First off, Governor Brown signed the California Homemade Food Act, AB 1616, into law this past week. So Californians will soon be able to make and sell “non-hazardous” foods in a home kitchen and sell them. But how will those goods get delivered? Above, a bakery in Holland using that long lost mode of transport, the dog cart. Picture via Terrierman’s Daily Dose....
Urban Farm Magazine
We have a article on urban farmers across America in the premiere issue of a magazine bound to appeal to readers of this blog, Urban Farm. Our article, Where Urban Meets Farm, profiles the efforts of our friends the Green Roof Growers of Chicago, Em Jacoby of Detroit and Kelly Yrarrazaval of Orange County. All of these fine folks have repurposed urban and suburban spaces to grow impressive amounts of food, a common sense trend popular enough to...
Picture Sundays: Easy Ridin’ Bees
To see how “backwards” beekeeper Danny rescued this swarm see his blog Bees and Beyond....
Picture Sundays: The Cawston Ostrich Farm
“Reaching for oranges, Cawston Ostrich Farm, So Pasadena, CA.” Ostriches seemed to be a big tourist attraction in the early 20th century. This place also featured a “solar motor”–click to bigulate: Personally, I’d much rather visit the Cawston Ostrich Farm than Disneyland....
Picture Sundays: A Car Exhaust Powered Pressure Cooker
From the June 1930 issue of Modern Mechanics: Automatic Food Cooker Runs by Exhaust Heat of Car Meals can literally be cooked on the run through the use of the automatic cooker shown in the photo above. The cooker is mounted on the rear bumper of the motor tourist’s car and an extension from the exhaust pipe connected up with it, as shown in the insert. The cooker contains a steam pressure kettle which is heated by the hot exhaust gases....
Picture Sundays: Cigarette Card Trellis Advice
Via Deirdre’s Garden Diary and Homesteading, a Wills Cigarette Card from 1923. A little gardening advice with your cancer sticks....