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Continue reading →: How to Make Paneer
Paneer is a fresh, non-melting, pressed cheese of Indian origin. It’s usually used in chunks. Here Bhavna shows us how she makes her paneer using full fat milk, cream and lime juice (to curdle the mixture). She emphasizes weighting the cheese curds heavily to express as much water as you…
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Continue reading →: Mushroom Farming: Ozark Forest (Shitake) Mushrooms
A look at Ozark Forest Mushrooms,a family owned 18,000 shiitake log farm located in the Missouri Ozarks Big Springs region.
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Continue reading →: DIY Boxbike (bakfiets)
Nick Johnson in Princeton, New Jersey details his build of a boxbike cargo bike. These go for thousands of dollars, so building one himself would have saved a lot of money. He was looking for a bike that would allow him to transport groceries as well as let him get…
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Continue reading →: Bike Truck Delivery Service in Boston
“Short piece from CNN featuring bicycle trucking company and delivery service, New Amsterdam Project”
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Continue reading →: Beekeeping in Berkeley, California
Mateo Rutherford of the Green Faerie Farm talks about his bees and beekeeping.
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Continue reading →: Chamois and Fan Swamp Cooler
Pepemapache writes: “This video isn’t great but it shows in a very simple and cheap way how to make a swamp cooler at home. Get a shammie or its famous equivalent: a shamwow. Get it wet and place it in the back of a regular 20” fan that you probably…
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Continue reading →: How To Make Cultured Butter
Melody Kettle shows us how she makes cultured butter at home. She used Greek yoghurt to culture cream and then her hand mixer (first with whisk attachments and then with paddles) to “churn” the butter. She rinses the butter in ice water and then uses her hands (she could also…
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Continue reading →: Navajo Weaver Clara Sherman Cards and Spins
Navajo weaver Clara Sherman shows us how she cards and spins the wool she uses to weave rugs.
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Continue reading →: The What, How and Why of Sourdough Starter
From Wardeh Harmon in Oregon. She discusses the science and the benefits of sourdough: –No need to buy your yeast – the wild yeasts and lactobacilli in sourdough starter are everywhere in the environment, you just need to encourage them. –Sourdough breads don’t stale as quickly. -Sourdough starter is more…
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Continue reading →: How To Make Clarified Butter
Clarified butter is butter from which the milk solids have been removed. Commercial operations may use a centrifuge or decantation to do this. The traditional ghee method involves melting and heating the butter so that its water evaporates and some milk solids rise to the top of the melted fat…