Back in the saddle with a rye starter on the left for personal use, fed last night, and a white starter for friends fed just a minute ago
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On the efficiency of my scythe | Small Farm Future
Another great post from Chris Smaje, and how about those comments?
The reason that you see farmers nowadays with combines and not with scythes is because energy and capital are cheap, labour is dear, and most people don’t work the land. Like it or not, I think all this is going to change in the future.
I had a scythe once. I loved that thing, and the sheer joy of becoming skilled in using it and keeping it sharp.
Pleased, in a nerdy way, that tomorrow's podcast episode, in which I chat with a chef and teacher in Aoteora, will go out on a day when we all will have almost the same times for sunrise and sunset.
A friend and bread client gave me a bag of Khorasan flour, so not Kamut, but, with a tacit request, later confirmed, that I baker a loaf
A friend and bread client gave me a bag of Khorramshahr flour, so not Kamut, but, with a tacit request, later confirmed, that I baker a loaf.
So, here goes. I fed my 75% wholewheat starter, thinking this would be whole too. It isn’t, but that’s ok. Kneads up oK, with a nice pale yellow cast. Seems a bit weak though, even though the packet said 14% protein. Obviously not that great for gluten. We shall see.
Troubleshooting blues
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It can be so hard to debug IndieWeb problems when they arise in Known. For now, this should be a , because Chris Aldrich reported a problem. But even if this works, I may need to go outside this installation to test properly. Or, perhaps, try webmention.rocks.
Test reply because @chrisaldrich was getting an error. Might be OK with reply but not webmention, so will test that next.
New edition of Eat This Newsletter up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-134-dated/ with input from @IKershner, @lindsmiddleton, @National_Ag_Lib, @jennywrenwatts, @gherkinstomato and others.
One of the stranger aspects of RSS feeds is when a long dormant site springs back into life. Usually, I'm glad. This time, I'm not sure what to make of the fact that Freakonomicsbook.com is now in the hands of someone else.
How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations | Chartable
Wow! Great read from Lisa Charlotte Rost on colours in visualisations. I have a lot of work to do ...
PhD student reporting what it's like to use a Zettelkasten for the first time with my classes — Zettelkasten Forum
What this really needs, for me, is a largish piece of paper tucked into the physical book, which I have done, in the past. The insight is to procss those notes later in the day.
Rotten cloud bank obscuring the moment of truth.
Rotten cloud bank obscuring the moment of truth.
Maybe there is still time for a breakthrough.
pesosTIL that only 5% of podcasts have been updated in the past 90 days ... and mine was one of them
https://podcastindex.org/
Top podcasting tip: if you don’t want the sound of the room to colour tracks, don’t be in a room.
Top podcasting tip: if you don’t want the sound of the room to colour tracks, don’t be in a room.
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New edition of Eat This Newsletter up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-133-entirely-whole/ with thanks to @bittman @PhilMagowa_n @vidya83 @IsaRossellini and many others.
Town Hall Clock: read it and weep
“Are you still there? Mum?”
I kept my voice steady. I didn’t show that I was crying
“Moschatel. Adoxa moschcatellina, is the Latin name but I think I taught you town hall clock.”
Although I love having a huge park almost on the doorstep, sometimes I need a change of scene
Although I love having a huge park almost on the doorstep, sometimes I need a change of scene.
This morning’s walk, for @tavolamediterranea
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Withnail and I has lost none of its charm over the past 35 years.