Making It Available in Overdrive App

December 22, 2016

...ecreational library visit, my favorite librarian informed me that our book Making It is available for download in the Overdrive app. Ego boosted! Many public libraries, in addition to books, now have a long list of digital gewgaws, apps and resources. One of those apps is Overdrive, which allows you to download eBooks, videos and audio books to your digital devices for free. Over 30,000 libraries worldwide use Overdrive to distribute materials. To...

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Making Tofu From Scratch at the Institute of Domestic Technology

Mr. Homegrown

June 9, 2014

Food, Food Preservation

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...coffee roasting, bacon curing, bread baking, jam and exotic projects like making your own nocino and toothpaste. One of the perks of teaching at the IDT is getting to sit in on some of the other classes. The coffee roasting class changed my life. Now, every morning, I look forward to fresh coffee I roasted myself in a Whirley-Pop Popcorn maker. This past weekend I sat in a new IDT class taught by author Andrea Nguyen on how to make tofu from scra...

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Saturday Tweets: Tanning Fish, Trees and Dealing with Medieval Mansplainers

Mr. Homegrown

April 28, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...e." https://t.co/YDoXLeEle7 — Streetsblog USA (@StreetsblogUSA) April 25, 2018 All we need to do to fix transit in this country is build exact replicas of these bus stops from my daughter’s Lego set pic.twitter.com/u4VbqqG91T — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) April 25, 2018 California's Trees Are Dying At A Catastrophic Rate https://t.co/yDizIMeYyu — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) April 23, 2018 How to deal with a mansplainer – four medieval way...

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Saturday Tweets: Peppercorns, Fig Trees and Your Inner Cleveland

Mr. Homegrown

December 27, 2014

Saturday Linkages

Why Bury Fig Trees? A Curious Tradition Preserves A Taste Of Italy http://t.co/wmFQIZBmoh — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 27, 2014 A Tablet for Africa? http://t.co/vsCls4QyTe — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 27, 2014 Flooded Crypt of San Francesco: Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water http://t.co/CJPiv46xpq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 27, 2014 The “Inner Cleveland” of Trendy Cities http://t.co/HNrH9pmlEW...

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Extreme Measures: Squirrel Proofing Your Fruit Trees

Mr. Homegrown

May 27, 2015

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Pests

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...ia Commons. I think there’s a way to make aesthetically pleasing fruit tree cages. Crazy idea: what if they were as carefully crafted as Robert Irwin’s running fence piece at UC San Diego? It’s too late to fence the trees in our own garden, but I think if I were planning a new garden I might try to find a way to make those fruit tree cages look like 70s era land art. How do you deal with the squirrel/fruit tree menace?...

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