Picture Sundays: Separating Sack of Sack
For separating your sack from another sack? Or something to do with fish? Thanks to Joseph Shuldiner for separating this sack of sack from all the other items in our local Asian supermarket....
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Picture Sundays: The New Root Simple Whip
And it’s powered by humanure! At last we have a stylish vehicle for our dog cheese deliveries....
Picture Sundays: A Keyhole Bed and Straw Bale Garden in Texas
John W. from Kerrville, Texas sent in some pictures of his garden. John says, This is my first year to use compost tea. I am growing plants in two Keyhole Gardens, self watering 5 gal plastic buckets and two hay bales (coastal Bermuda hay) that have a wooden framework on top containing bulk landscaping compost from a local nursery. My plants are growing super fast and my tomatoes are loaded. This looks to be the best garden I have ever had. J...
Picture Sundays: Chumash ‘Ap
The interior of a traditional Chumash dwelling called an ‘ap as recreated at the La Purisima Mission State Historic Park near Lompoc, California. If only a fraction of modern dwellings were this elegant . . ....
Picture Sundays: Harvard’s Glass Flower Collection
Photo ©President & Fellows Harvard College, photo of Blaschka Glass Model by Hillel Burger. This cactus is made out of glass. Root Simple reader tworose tipped me off to the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s collection of glass flowers. According to the museum’s website: This unique collection of over 3,000 models was created by glass artisans Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolph. The commission began in 1886, continued for fi...
Picture Sundays: I’m not missing the car but the horse is getting smelly . . .
Via Kitsch and Retro....
Picture Sundays: Bile Beans
ETA: Kelly says: Bile beans on Easter Sunday? Oh, Erik. I’m adding the following photo to this post. It’s really exciting that a Barred Rock is featured in the photo, plus, it illustrates the ambiguous relationship between rabbits and eggs that marks Easter: a persistent ambiguity that leads little kids to believe bunnies lay eggs, or at least the chocolate ones. Here, the bunny seems to have domesticated the hen as both an...
Picture Sundays: Makin’ Adobes
From the Library of Congress image archive “Spanish-American removing form shaped adobe brick. The adobe brick is next dried by the sun. Chamisal, New Mexico. July 1940.” This is exactly what I’ve been doing in my spare time for a few weeks now in preparation for an upcoming earth oven workshop. I’m on adobe #50–45 more to go! And, from the same archive, an adobe chicken coop: “Scene in the adobe brick chic...
Picture Sundays: Your Livestock Can Survive Fallout from Nuclear Attack
The US Department of Agriculture published this handy pamplett circa 1962. The USDA’s main recommendation? Get yourself a “two-story, basement-type barn with a hay-filled loft, to “reduce radiation exposure [to your animals by] as much as 80 percent.” Thanks to the interwebs you can download your own copy here. And, something for the kids. There’s a film version–featuring marionettes!...
Picture Sundays: Fallout Shelter
Via How to be a Retronaut, a roundup of 1960s fallout shelter ads. Also, see an old post of ours for nifty plans from FEMA on how you can make a combination bar and fallout shelter....