Food Storage as Art

....com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mG9xYVyAnuc Artist Jihyun Ryou’s work uses food storage techniques from the pre-refrigerator era in a way that’s both useful and beautiful. Her goal is to, “Try to bring your food in front of your eyes” to counteract that tendency we all have to make our refrigerators unintentional composters. The techniques she demonstrates include: Evaporation Sand, both to keep vegetables vertical and to decrease humidity Us...

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013 Keeping Chickens with Terry Golson of Hencam.com

...you should have in your chicken first aid kit. Terry’s “spa treatment” she uses to deal with egg binding. Doing a chicken necropsy. Why Terry doesn’t keep roosters. Where to source chicks and pullets. When and how to euthanize a sick chicken. I mention free necropsies provided by the University of California Extension Service for California residents. What Terry thinks about those rooster rings that supposedly keep roosters from crowing (hint: she...

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Artichoke Season at the Homegrown Revolution Compound

...e gotten used to eating the occasional aphid. They may even have medicinal uses according the the Plants for a Future Database (which only gives them a measly 3 out of 5 score for usefulness!), The globe artichoke has become important as a medicinal herb in recent years following the discovery of cynarin. This bitter-tasting compound, which is found in the leaves, improves liver and gall bladder function, stimulates the secretion of digestive juic...

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Sorting the Digital Photos of a Digital Pandemic

...ery much occupy the “meatspace” of digital cloud storage, an industry that uses immense amounts of power, occupies countless technicians, programmers, HR departments, outsourced content moderators and janitors and eats up land in the from of massive warehouses, power stations, undersea cables and telecommunications stitching facilitates. The hidden physical reality of computer space is realized and satirized in eXistenZ in the virtual world of a v...

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Let’s Get Biointensive

...avons’ book How to Grow More Vegetables. Jeavons dislikes rows and instead uses the triangular spacing of the French biointensive method. You can view a nice diagram of biointensive spacing on the LandShare Colorado website. And see some images of the way Jeavons’ spaces his garden on This Girl’s Gone Green. Triangular plantings squeeze more veggies into small spaces. The tight spacing, with leaves allowed to just touch each other when the plant i...

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