I’ve been in the process of designing my new garden. Being that we’ve been moving every year for the past three, it’s been hard to get a garden established. I’ve tried the traditional raised bed design, also the more hybrid approach. Not to long ago I saw a post on Root Simple’s page about a…
Picture This: Antique tools
Found these and many more, still functional, antique tools at The Colony swap meet in Missouri. If I wasn’t flying back with a full backpack, I would provably had given some of these a new home. I have been prone to buying older more dependable tools than their newer, shinier counterparts. They have withstood the…
The timber frame workshop was in the local news paper, The Memphis Democrat. Yours truly at the top of this photo with Illly and Rae, my good friends whose home we were building.
Had a blast, learned lots of new skills (if I can retain any is a different story), and have been meeting loads of amazing people here at Dancing Rabbit.
Timber Frame workshop at Dancing Rabbit eco village
As you might have read on the Greenman Project FaceBook page, I have been at Dancing Rabbit Eco village in Missouri. I am visiting good friends for a month and participating in a workshop to build their timber frame, more specifically roundwood, home. Missouri, unlike California, has no building codes to speak of, so here…
2. How to (and not) properly season cast iron pots
Now that we have our cast iron clean and ready (if not, first check out the post before this one), let’s learn to properly season cast iron cookware! Again, as I said last time, there are many ways to do this and this is only the one that fit me best. If you have one…
1. How to (and not) properly season cast iron pots
I’ve been searching high and low for a way to properly season cast iron. This project has taken me to many web forums, pages, blogs, antique stores etc… This, I have learned, is a topic of heated debate. In this case as with many things in life, there are many ways to achieve a good…