Bird’s Nest

July 7, 2015

...ther post. Anyone have any guesses about what kind of bird made this nest? The bowl is about 3 inches (7.5 cm) across. ETA: I’ve been looking at this great page of bird nests–it’s heaven for the bird nest enthusiast. So many types of nests! Wee little eggs! Baby birds! One bird even made its nest in a sweatshirt hanging on a laundry line. (That’ll teach you to bring in your laundry promptly): http://www.thebirdersreport.com/egg-and-nest-identifica...

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Saturday Tweets: Air Plants, Nutrition and Empathy

Mr. Homegrown

December 13, 2014

Saturday Linkages

...) December 8, 2014 Curing a Nutella addict: http://t.co/FwmLbBpZxN — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 8, 2014 Los Angeles, City of Water http://t.co/SnFSfbZGxA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 8, 2014 Why we refrigerate eggs (and the rest of the world doesn’t): http://t.co/lbxi7mEyNW — Kitchen Daily (@KitchenDaily) December 7, 2014 Holy Scrap: Illuminated Manuscript project: http://t.co/v7EXyIMFIj — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 6, 2014...

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La Alternativa

Mr. Homegrown

September 17, 2006

Resources

...k, a flan made with fruit or vegetables rather than scarce corn starch and eggs, and laundry soap made from the jaboncillo tree. What we like most about Gálvez is that she is a strong proponent of urban gardening, maximizing every available space for food, a contrast to Martha Stewart’s useless pesticide and fertilizer drenched flower gardens. See the the film Power of Community How Cuba Survived Peak Oil for more on Cuba’s inventive urban gardeni...

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Revolutionary Rusks

Mr. Homegrown

November 5, 2006

Bread, Food

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...baking powder 1 cup chopped almonds Wet ingredients ½ cup melted butter 2 eggs ¾ cup buttermilk 2 teaspoons pure vanilla 2 teaspoons pure almond extract preheat oven to 400º In a large mixing bowl, mix the dry ingredients In another mixing bowl, mix the wet ingredients Pour the wet into the dry and stir until you have a soft dough Turn the dough onto a well-floured surface and roll or pat it to a ½-inch thickness Cut the dough into 2×4-inch recta...

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The Perfect Chicken Coop?

Mr. Homegrown

November 28, 2012

Animals, Chickens

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...esting box from the outside so you don’t have to go in the coop to collect eggs. It has a roof over the run to keep your chickens dry. It’s the basic form I used for our coop with a few refinements–I ran hardware cloth under run to keep out burrowing predators. I also extended the run to keep the chickens from pecking at each other (the more room they have the better). To paraphrase Nassim Taleb for the second time in a week, if a given design has...

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