I don’t want salvation.
I watched a deer die this week. It took about ninety seconds, which is a lot longer than I hope for, and the deer fought hard to live. The shock, pain and fear it was experiencing as it struggled against…
a Small and Delicious Life
Common Sense for the New Times
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Common Sense for the New Times
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Driving gives only responsibilities
—no rights.
Victoria, B.C. is a lovely town to bike in; it is fairly flat, gets quite a bit less rain than nearby Vancouver, and is a fairly compact little city. You can access most services you need on most days, even…
How to make butter.
We occasionally get a gallon of fresh cow’s milk from a charming Jersey named Sultana; it is a deliciously heart-breaking reminder of hedonism lost. The milk is not homogenized so the cream floats on top and the consistency of the cream…
Dance of the Honey Bee—lovely slow-mo
When I collected my first swarm last year, I arrived at a well-manicured suburban home to find a cluster of bees the size of a Christmas Ham clumped on a branch about ten feet in the air. It is hard…
Peat or Coir? The correct answer is…?
As I say in my blogroll, TreeHugger is where I go to get enraged. In what should be an innocuous Top Nine Products for Healthy Soil post, I managed to flip my lid twice. Peat is bad and Coir is…
Canning Sauerkraut
Making sauerkraut is something for the fall, when the cabbages are fresh and cheap. But, having made my ‘kraut last October and skimmed its scum all winter,⊕To good effect. No less a luminary than James MacKinnon said—and I am quoting…
The Bacon Life
It is easy to think the Small and Delicious Life is only so delicious because it is spiced with achievement—but independent taste testers agree the greens are crisper, the bacon more flavourful, the bread nuttier. And you get the sweet…
On the Anatomy of Thrift—videos by Farmrun
We met Andrew Plotsky in a roundabout way—he made a short film about B. for diy.org. Naturally, when we heard he was coming up, we googled him up and watched a bunch of his stuff. I encourage you to do…
Homemade Bulk Food Measuring Bags
Orginally published on the Glenbrook North Zero Waste Blog (more about them at the end). I keep a lot of my dry goods in glass jars to keep them fresh and safe from insects. And, of course I hate garbage, so…
Easy Homemade Soap
This was one of my first posts on TreeHugger.com. One day I tried to figure out why no one knows how to do anything anymore. We can’t understand, let alone repair, most of the gadgets we use everyday. We increasingly…
Easy Homemade Yogourt
This is one of my first posts, on TreeHugger. You can see the original article here. I do almost everything different when I make yogourt today, but that will have to be the subject of another post. ***Edit*** That other…
The Perogy Party
This is one of my first posts from TreeHugger, originally published as Buy Nothing Day Doesn’t Mean Living Less. Buy Nothing Day is a holiday dear to my heart. Proud as I am to be associated with TreeHugger, I know…