Actually Hen-Of-the-Neighborhood-Woods. My mycologist neighbor came by today with a paper bag. In October, after a rain storm, I know exactly what’s in it: mushrooms! It was a gorgeous chicken-of-the-woods, so fresh and soft it was still almost entirely white that new creamy white (compare to last year’s). I fried it in some olive oil …
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Apples Apples
A friend was at a farm stand and called to see if I wanted apples. Do I! A bushel, please! I got all McIntosh. They were utility apples but they all looked impeccable to me! I’m dehydrating 1 peck (1/4 bushel), which takes about 6 hours. I just finished canning 1 peck in apple sauce. …
Earth Oven, Phase 4: Thermal Mass
The Earth Oven series: foundation base hearth thermal mass first drying fire and door arch insulating layer and chimney Patching up, and first pizza! Today we worked on the oven again. Rain threatened but never materialized. It made for a warm, overcast day, just perfect for some more or less hard outdoor work. First we …
Rob Hopkins in the US
Yesterday my friend R and I carpooled into Medford to see Rob Hopkins speaking at Tufts University. We walked into the crowded room and someone called, in a British accent: “I know you!” I turned and there was Rob Hopkins. He had recognized me from our “just get going” segment in the movie In Transition 2.0. We …
Chickens Don’t like Cello
We tested that today. Maybe they just need to get used to it.
For a New Culture
In the last few days I’ve come across no less than three children (all 8) who think babies are born by being cut out of their mothers’ Â bellies. That adds to the child who, a couple of months ago, said this to Amie, who immediately set the record straight. What with all her exposure, from …
Riot for Abundance – August, September 2013 – Months 58-59
ALMOST FIVE YEARS OF RIOT! This is the Riot for Abundance for the months of August and September 2013,  for the three of us. Edson fixed the calculator: all go tither to crunch those numbers! Gasoline.  Calculated per person. Though I feel like I’m driving a lot more due to an uptick in activism-related trips, we …
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Earth Oven, Phase 3: the Hearth
The Earth Oven series: foundation base hearth thermal mass first drying fire and door arch insulating layer and chimney Patching up, and first pizza! So far, none of the Earth Oven preparations, the foundation and the base, have had nothing to do with heat. Which is, of course, what the oven is all about. Heat becomes …
She Lives and Breathes
An acquaintance some time ago took me up on my offer of a kombucha mother. They accumulate in my fridge and I had sent a call out. I gave him the mother with all the instructions and he said he would take care of it. A week later I met him and asked about his …
Activism: Newton 350 Draw the Line Rally
The idea for this weekend was for us to go the Amherst, MA, for me to do a three-day training in Effective Groups while DH and Amie did some sightseeing and goat research – lots of people with goats in Amherst! However, DH fell sick and we had to cancel the whole thing. So Amie …