The other day I was talking with my friend Linda Leigh on the phone. Linda is a worm farmer and was formerly a Biospherian. She told me about an experiment she’d been doing with a compost of coffee grounds and sawdust–only those two things. She said the compost was 138 degrees inside. Hmmm, I thought. [...]
Archive for December 15th, 2010
compost kotatsu
Posted in energy efficiency, tagged compost, heater on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
simplified windowbox heater
Posted in energy efficiency, tagged heater on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Back in the 1980′s a friend built me one of these heaters from plans in the Mother Earth News. At the time, I lived in northern Idaho in a trailer. The heater worked so well that sometimes I had to open the door to cool the place off(!) I’m no carpenter, but I built a [...]
olives
Posted in cooking, tagged recipes on December 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My neighbors gave me olives from their tree. I LOVE black olives, so I set about curing them. I used a recipe given to me by a friend, but I revised it a little bit. First, make two deep cuts in each olive–all the way to the pit. I made my cuts one on each [...]
