Wild Food Lab: Foraging Taken to the Next Level

August 28, 2014

...is also the simplest: how to prepare the ubiquitous broadleaf plantain (Plantago major). Pascal gave me a couple of ideas for ways to enhance my bread experiments with seeds and wild herbs which I’m looking forward to trying. Do you have a favorite wild food? Tell us where you live and what you like to gather and work with....

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Failed Experiment: Bermuda Buttercup or Sour Grass (Oxalis pes-caprae) as Dye

Mrs. Homegrown

January 31, 2013

Domesticus, Herbs, Mistakes

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...t dodgy. Water quantity, as you will recall, is just enough to “cover” the herbs. For the record, I believe I used 3 tsp of both alum and cream of tartar in the first round, for t-shirt #1, then added 3 tsp of iron for round 2. But how much water I used, I have no idea. T-shirt #2 went in and I let it stew forever. The water took on a nice green color, but the shirt couldn’t even pick up the pale tint that shirt #1 had acquired. It was like the dy...

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Saturday Tweets: From Zines to Hedgehogs

Mr. Homegrown

May 12, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...t back: https://t.co/Qolk4BE0zh — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 7, 2018 10 herbs you probably haven’t heard of but should grow | Alys Fowler https://t.co/5ZDthQa7H2 pic.twitter.com/yOTRrsvH6V — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) May 6, 2018 ‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job https://t.co/q8RhMn391u — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2018 Humility in science communication https://t.co/NAPo2gyqXP via @2020science — Root...

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Bee Idle

Mr. Homegrown

April 3, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...rmingham, where we spent the day filming the first two instalments of our new online gardening course for eco-idlers. The principle is low effort, high productivity. Alys is a brilliant instructor and I wish I’d consulted her before I started growing vegetables and herbs. It would have saved me a lot of pain . . . We’re also organising an event with Alys for the Chelsea Fringe Festival. Her idea is that we create a Plant Cemetery at the Idler Acad...

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Thomas Pynchon on Pizza

Mr. Homegrown

September 30, 2021

Food, Thoughtstylings

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...f the Bodhi Dharma product. Its sauce was all but crunchy with fistfuls of herbs only marginally Italian and more appropriate in a cough remedy, the rennetless cheese reminded customers variously of bottled hollandaise or joint compound, and the options were all vegetables rigorously organic, whose high water content saturated, long before it baked through, a stone-ground twelve-grain crust with the lightness and digestibility of a manhole cover....

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