Alright, I’ve been watching Survivors on BBC, and the Walking Dead, and I saw The Road a few weeks ago, so end-of-world scenarios are in my head. The more I see movie and TV shows try to tackle this big…
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What’s Your Post-Apocalyptic Plan?
Posted in Events, Gardening, Home Improvement Tagged with: cataclysm, communes, gardening, Mad Max, plague, post-apocalyptic, superflu, survivors, The Road, urban homesteading, walking dead
Harvesting
Some say we’ve lost touch with the land. We whizz around in cars, staring at glowing rectangles all day, and the natural world is at best, a disturbance, at worst, invisible. Not so! Harvesting your own food is simple, rewarding,…
Colors of All Kinds
I’m really excited about all this DOMA and gay marriage media coverage because it gets Americans talking about something other than the Kardashians. I want to focus on one angle of the gay marriage debate: saying that a Supreme Court…
Spring!
Holy Jeezum Crow and a whole bunch of other sanitized versions of non-curse sayings! It’s the first day of Spring! This means today is cool and overcast because San Diego just likes to be different. Not Portland or Austin different,…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: child harbat, gardening, hipsters, lamb, moustaches, number two, spring, velocipede
Kale Monster
It has happened again. With the best intentions, my wife has planted some kale in our garden. Sure, it’ll provide some leafy green now and again. You might think of the neat bundle of kale you find in the produce…
Landscape Fabric Fail
I’ve written about product design failures before. When you are putting together something as complex as a jumbo jet, there are multiple levels of redundancy and long testing periods. A jet, and all its systems, is designed. So how can…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: bermuda grass, fail, gardening, landscape fabric, product design
The Ultimate Home Garden Crop
I’ve had my experiences with zucchini, have battled with overgrown kale and eggplant, and tried to stop the inexorable spread of marjoram through the garden. Through all this I’ve discovered one crop that may be the perfect thing to grow…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: child harbat, crops, flowers, food, garden, gardening, strawberry
Bread and Garden
First things first. Check out the newest sourdough ciabatta: This was a 12-hour ferment at room temperature with no second proof. I poured the dough out onto a floured board, folded letter-style, dimpled with my fingers to deflate the larger…
The Fence Project, Continued
How long ago was it that I originally started on The Fence Project? Long enough that the brilliant orange/brown of fresh redwood has faded to dusty grey and a family of earwigs has taken up residence in the paper-thin slot…
Shop Class as Soulcraft
When I was twelve I made a pair of mirrored wood sconces in shop class. My teacher was a massive figure who looked like Mr. T’s older brother and had only one speed: deliberate. I imagine if you cut your…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: baking, blue collar, gardening, industrial arts, parenting, power tools, shop class, white collar
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