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Sourdough Bread Class at the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano

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Bread, Events, Food
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...c ingredients. Other benefits of baking at home include using less energy (used in harvesting, processing, and shipping store-bought bread), using less plastic packaging, and spending less money. Become a baker and join us for a weekend of heart-healthy, bread baking workshops: Saturday, June 21, 1-3 to make Sourdough and/or Sunday, June 22, 1-3p to make Sourdough rye! Topics discussed will include: How to make your own sourdough starter (also kno...

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Sourdough Rye Bread Class at the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano

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Bread, Events, Food
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...c ingredients. Other benefits of baking at home include using less energy (used in harvesting, processing, and shipping store-bought bread), using less plastic packaging, and spending less money. Become a baker and join us for the rye class on Sunday, June 22, 1-3p. We’ll provide ingredients, and everyone will go home with a jar of starter ready to make bread. Instructor: Erik Knutzen For more information or to sign up head over to the Ecology Cen...

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The canning lid conundrum

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Domesticus, Food Preservation
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How do you guys store your used canning lids and rings? We keep a lot of them around because we use canning jars for so many things other than canning: dry goods, leftovers, food-to-go, body care, etc. My collection is driving me crazy. Never was there a set of more awkward objects than a pile of slippery, jangly rings and lids. Ideas? [Mr. Homegrown in my Master Food Preserver mode chiming in here–as per USDA advice we use two piece canning lids...

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Our Grape Arbor

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Design, Gardening
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...eplaced it with an arbor. Our neighbor generously gave us the columns that used to be on her front porch and I added a plinth to make them taller. In the background are two apple trees that provide some privacy. It’s taken a couple of years for the grapes to cover the structure. One reason is that we lost two vines to Pierce’s disease. Now we have two resistant varieties: Vitus Californica “Rogers Red” and Vitis vinifera x V. lambrusca “Pearl Rive...

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Extreme Low-Tech Communication

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Appropriate Technology, Preparedness, Water and Power
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...o this primitive home-made transmitter, nicknamed “El Silbo.” No power was used other than that generated by his own voice vibrating the microphone (which was a re-purposed speaker). If you want to build your own here’s the circuit schematic and more details. And here’s Rainey, back in 2009, using El Silbo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6G_yGDbgEY#t=0 On a side note, can we please apply Ham radio’s level of detail and open source spirit to the...

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