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Continue reading →: Convert A Shopping Cart Into A Bike Trailer
Tony Hoar, who builds and sells various bike trailers, in British Columbia, Canada shows us how to make a DIY bike trailer from an old shopping cart. Here’s a work in progress design from armouredcockroach for a shopping cart bike trailer with an inset wheel. Here Wettke in Europe has…
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Continue reading →: About Hominy and Nixtamalization
Daniel Delaney talks about hominy and nixtamalization and gives a pozole recipe. The mistake he makes though is the one I made of associating hominy only with Southern and Mexican cooking. It turns out that making hominy is something that Native people throughout N. America (examples, Chippewa, Iroquois, Cherokee…) did/do…
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Continue reading →: Small-Scale Mushroom Farm in New Mexico
Danny Rhodes of Desert Fungi in Velarde, New Mexico gives us a detailed tour of his greenhouse mushroom farm operation. I found the wet wall/swamp cooler system he rigged to control the temperature in his mushroom growing greenhouse in the summer especially interesting. Danny produces between 100-150 lbs of Oyster,…
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Continue reading →: Fizzy Drinks: Fermented Lemonade
Sarah in Florida shows us how to make an effervescent lemonade, using fresh lemon juice, sugar and active whey.
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Continue reading →: Making a Fermented Soda/Pop
Kimberly Gallagher shows us a method for making a homemade fizzy drink. These first two videos are about making the culture (to which you’ll later add flavored syrups to make your drink): Here she uses her culture to make a fizzy ginger beer (fermented soda/pop): Interesting, because I know one…
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Continue reading →: Using A Navajo Spindle
joyofhandspinning (Tulasi Zimmer) shows us how to use a Navajo spindle. Navajo spindles are large, relatively heavy support spindles used by Native peoples in the Southwest US. The spindle is supported by the floor/ground and your thigh. Theresa demonstrates spinning on a Navajo spindle.
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Continue reading →: How to Make Tooth Powder
Here’s a simple tooth herbal tooth powder; an alternative to toothpaste. The recipe uses white clay powder, baking soda, sea salt, dried sage and spearmint essential oil.
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Continue reading →: The Useful Basswood/Linden/Tilia/Lime Tree
The basswood, also known as the linden, tilia or lime tree has a ton of uses, grows widely (in different varieties) throughout North America and Europe and is easy to identify. I’d been reading about its use by Native Americans to make fiber and cordage/rope: From NativeTech “Fibers were stripped…
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Continue reading →: Intro to Drop Spindles
Ruthann McCaulley talks about different kinds of spindles and how to use them.