Saturday Tweets: Ancient Bread, Wild Horses and High Metabolism Money

August 10, 2019

...19 Baking bread from dormant, 4,500-year-old yeast extracted from Egyptian bread-making ceramics https://t.co/BWGlliA50q — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 8, 2019 Wild Horses of Nevada by Maynard Dixon , 1927. pic.twitter.com/LsmjluOrwn — Mordecai (@MenschOhneMusil) August 6, 2019 High Metabolism Money https://t.co/Z7Z27lpnJF via @wordpressdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 10, 2019 Become immersed in the sights and the sounds of the fores...

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A Homemade Mattress?

Mrs. Homegrown

March 15, 2013

Design, Domesticus

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...the wool. It took her about 6 hours to fill the mattress. 3) Here is a webpage, in French, showing the mattress making process. Lots of useful pictures. I have to run it through Google Translate for more clues. 4) Do not fall for the eHow result if you search for how to make a wool mattress. It gets off to a great start by recommending you use glue, rather than stitching, to construct your mattress tick . (They call the tick a “fabric sheet pouch...

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Picture Sundays: Adobe Brick Making Workshop

Mr. Homegrown

May 10, 2015

Picture Sundays

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...A few pics from yesterday’s adobe brick making workshop taught by Ben Loescher of Adobe is Not Software. If you’d like to join in on the fun we’ll be making more bricks next Saturday. Head over to the Environmental Changemaker’s website to sign up for either the brick making or the cob oven workshop in June....

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Looking for the Union Label

Mr. Homegrown

September 12, 2007

Domesticus

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...d a highly catchy ad jingle from the roller disco era, “Look for the Union Label” (youngsters can watch it on youtube here). We looked for the union label and we were surprised to find it via a company called Union House which carries a functional, if unexciting line of apparel. Unless hipsters take to golf shirts in an ironic fashion judo move, these offerings will never be cool like the domestically made clothes made by the union busting folks o...

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Virtuosic Bread Shaping

Mr. Homegrown

August 8, 2014

Bread, Food

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...ice of a chef friend when I asked her how she learned to shape pizzas. The bread being shaped here is called Markook, In Arabic, مرقوق، شراك. It’s a flatbread found throughout the Middle East (an Armenian friend who grew up in Lebanon told us about it). A casual Youtube search will reveal many different Markook shaping techniques. Here’s a pillow free version making the rounds on Facebook: Post by Akhilesh Sharma. Back to learning a difficult skil...

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