Amy jumps in this week with an update on the garden. After that, she introduces the concept of voluntary simplicity, its implications for work, consumption, and gift giving, and talks about using Freecycle.
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We’ve been featured in Riptide, the blog of New Times Miami, a newspaper dedicated to local culture! Thanks go out to Tamara Lush for making this possible. You can see the article about us here.
Rhett shows you how to use a brewing technique similar to methode champagne to put bubbles in flavored sugar water and make your own soda. This is the traditional technique for making soft drinks such as ginger beer and sasparilla, and it makes for something sweet to serve with dinner or at parties.
Rhett’s ginger beer recipe: place 1/2 cup sugar, 1/8 tsp yeast, 1 tbsp (to taste) ground ginger root, juice of 1/2 lemon, and water to fill to 1″ head room in a 1L bottle. Cap, shake, and let the yeast do the hard work for 24-48 hours at room temperature.
This easy recipe came to us via this WikiHow article. This technique can be adapted to any number of flavorings and levels of sweetness. The only limit is your imagination! If you’d like to make cola, a good recipe can be found in OpenCola. WikiHow provides a simple-to-follow recipe.
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Rhett takes some time to answer some viewer mail. In addition, we’ve been tagged with the Thinking Blogger Award! So, in keeping with the award, here are our five favorite blogs and podcasts (they’re blogs, too!). If you write for any of these, consider yourself tagged! We give a blurb about each of the blogs in the video
For this week’s project, Rhett gives some pointers on how to get started growing oyster mushrooms on old coffee grinds. This sort of “direct to food” decomposition is a real godsend for those of us who don’t have back yards or large gardens for making and using compost. Put your kitchen scraps to work making gourmet mushrooms! For more information, check out this primer. For more information and supplies for growing your own mushrooms at home, or to get a professionally made oyster mushroom starter kit, you can also check out Fungi Perfecti (this is not a paid endorsement), Rhett’s favorite mycoloculture supplier. Growing mushrooms can be easy and a really fun way to get rid of kitchen waste. Give it a try!
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