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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...

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Spoon 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...

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Hannah’s bread, @ The Splendid Table

For Hanna’s sourdough-bread recipe follow the link: https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/sourdough-bread

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Bushcraft 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...

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cob 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...

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Pricing: 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...

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Wood, 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...

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Sproutlands, 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...

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how 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...

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Spoon 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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