Ruben’s Could Not Be Easier Sourdough—annotated
I strongly believe that we should start in a way that is the simplest possible. It is easy to make things more complex, but it is a lot harder to make them simple once you have invested a lot into…
a Small and Delicious Life
Common Sense for the New Times
a Small and Delicious Life
Common Sense for the New Times
Free Japanese smock apron pattern
A free pattern for a simple Japanese-style smock.
Clarifying vegetable fermentation
In this article I will identify and clarify as much of this as I can:
•Different goals of fermenting
•Why use an airlock
•Other gear suggestions
•You can use any salt
•Tap water is probably fine
•Botulism is unheard of
Compassionate Systems presentation at SCARP
This is a talk I gave at the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning. I was asked about Community Based Social Marketing and water conservation behaviour.
Introduction to Sauerkraut
This is a quick introduction to fermented foods, and to fermentation with Fido jars.
A disaster water filter kit
How to put together an affordable water filtration kit for emergencies.
Introducing the Cardbanneton
A pattern for a DIY banneton for bâtard loaves.
A quick belt knife
A nice belt knife I whipped up in an evening from a very affordable Mora Knife blade.
How many species will that cost?
Where is the money for the Green New Deal, or the hydrogen highway, or total electrification going to come from? I am not talking about who we are going to tax. It is going to come from wealth, extracted from nature and worked by labour. It is going to come at the cost of at least 200 species per day, every day.
Pickle Soup
A delicious way to use homemade fermented dill pickles that are past their prime.
A strong and affordable backyard greenhouse
In the rainy fall weather of the Canadian Pacific southwest, plants like tomatoes and cucumbers can easily develop blights and mildews before the fruit is ripe. If you wander the back alleys of the once-Italian neighbourhood of Vancouver’s Commercial Drive,…
A simple DIY bottle washer
A simple DIY bottle washer for rinsing your homebrew cider or beer bottles. No need to screw it on to your faucet, it slides on.
Universal Income may increase environmental damage.
I recently had a social media conversation about Universal Basic Income, and I would like to expand on it here. I think a UBI may greatly increase our environmental impact—and produce only a more equitable arrangement of deck chairs on…
Kill the planet—recycle contact lenses
This is just a rant about total illiteracy of human behaviour, leading to literally the worst recycling expansion I have seen in my entire career. A contact lens weighs about 25 milligrams, so an entire year’s supply of lenses is…
Tips for making (firm) yogourt.
A collection of trivia, some links, and some science concerning how to make firm yogourt.