The Scything Handbook: Learn How to Cut Grass, Mow Meadows and Harvest Grain...
note the degree of rotation in the front figure; however, he’s got the wrong leg forward! see youtube… The Scything Handbook is one more on a string of beautiful, helpful (and once common) pearls that...
View ArticleSpoon Carving & other Workshops for 2018
Spoon carving & Greenwood: • April 29 – May 5, The Buckeye Gathering, I’ll be spoon-carving; others will be hide-tanning, fire-making, flint-snapping, and everything else • May 8-14, I’ll be...
View ArticleHannah’s bread, @ The Splendid Table
For Hanna’s sourdough-bread recipe follow the link: https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/sourdough-bread
View ArticleBushcraft weekend – spoons, baskets, fire! Sept 22/23
Sept 22/23: Learn basic bushcraft Carve a spoon from greenwood, weave a cattail basket, make fire. Includes a wood-fired pizza potluck, and whatever other projects we can fit in around the evening...
View Articlecob ovens, spoon carving, & other workshops for 2019
May 18-19, cob oven workshop at the Artisan Baking Center in Petaluma California, details hereJune 22-23, cob oven workshop at the Prairie Mountain Folkschool in Joseph, Oregon, details hereAugust...
View ArticlePricing: The value of a wooden spoon
value: a family’s “favorite wooden spoon,” made by an anonymous Haitian*, and sold cheap at an import store. It became the basis for another essay on value, and has become part of this one. On wooden...
View ArticleWood, food, Bacteria & Nana-tech
People often express concerns that eating off of wood is “unhygienic,” and perhaps even dangerous. I will restrain myself from ranting about how industrialized, commercialized, and commodified culture...
View ArticleSproutlands, Wm. Bryant Logan
One of my favorite books is Dirt, The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, by William Bryant Logan, which I read years ago, when I was up to my eyeballs in mud, making ovens and houses and doing all kinds of...
View Articlehow much heat in a pound of wood
This is a simple question with a somewhat complicated, but very interesting answer. The simple answer is that each pound of reasonably dry wood contains about 6,000 BTUs of heat, or energy. If you want...
View ArticleSpoon Carving w/Lynn Rosetto Kasper on The Splendid Table
This spring, after my first spoon carving class of the season, I got a call from Lynne Rosetto Kasper, of the Splendid Table. She did a show about earthen ovens years ago, but wanted to talk spoons —...
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