Growing Your Own Food is Like Printing Your Own Money: Ron Finley’s TED Talk
...meet with me come to the garden with your shovel so we can plant some s**t.” Amen....
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The Upside Down Fire
....youtube.com/watch?v=pjBfzyz-xM8 This is how I make a campfire fire now. I used to use the teepee method, or some half-assed rendition of the teepee method, and I often had trouble with such fires. They required babying, rebuilding, etc., and they burned fast. This fire is built in the opposite direction: heavy stuff on the bottom, lighter stuff on top, tinder on the very top. Basically, the finished product looks like a bird’s nest sitting on a l...
How do you care for cast iron?
...killet on the sidewalk. It was a newer model pan, already seasoned, hardly used. One of my neighbors had apparently decided they didn’t like it, or need it. I snatched that puppy up. Not that I need more cast iron–I have three skillets in varying sizes, and no room for another. But to me, cast iron is solid gold. So I gave it to a friend who didn’t have one, who’d never cooked in cast iron before. Initially she seemed skeptical of the whole “no so...
Straw Bale Garden Part III: Adding Fertilizer
...that of blood meal. Those of you who have experimented with straw bale gardens please leave a comment on what fertilizers you used and how it worked . . ....
Power to the Peoplemover, a Zine About Riding the Bus
...chedule (where Mike and I lived at the time). We would sneak copies on to buses we rode and put them on the racks that held the official schedules. Power to the Peoplemover bus bench on Park Avenue in San Diego. We also collaborated on this PPM bus bench that was part of a UCSD Art Department show. The bus bench contained stories and cartoons related to riding the bus–in effect, it was another issue of PPM. I used to wait at this bus stop myself a...