We got tired of spending over $1-a-bar for soap several weeks ago, so we started looking around for ways to make soap at home. Most soapmaking was either dangerous — “lye can cause an explosion” — or too time-consuming — “let the soap cure for 30-days.” So, we kept looking until we found [...]
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Soap-making in 4 easy steps
Posted in do-it-ourselves, projects, simple things, tagged clearly natural soaps, do-it-yourself, glycerin soap, melt and pour soap, soap, soapmaking, soapmaking at home on June 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
First harvest of the season!
Posted in animals, food, garden, labyrinth, vegetables, tagged 100-foot diet, black snake, eating locally, first harvest, fresh garden produce, garden, homegrown vegetables, labyrinth, lettuce, locavore, radishes, spinach, spiritual journey, weeding on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today for lunch we had some fresh spinach from the garden. Not a lot, but enough to stir into the pasta sauce and ladle over our green organic spinach pasta. For dinner we harvested lettuce — 4 varieties — and 4 of our radishes transplanted weeks ago from our neighbor. Fresh radishes have an almost-peppery [...]
Reel mower and flame thrower
Posted in environment, garden, simple things, tagged burn weeds, flame thrower, garden torch, gas lawn equipment, handtools, reel mower, simple life, solar power, wendell berry on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
They came today. An odd combination of garden implements — a reel mower and a flame thrower. That’s right — flame thrower. My friends at Lehman’s feature a unique weed solution — a propane-powered weed-eating fire machine. Lehman’s calls it a garden torch, except you get the feeling that you’re holding [...]
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