With berry season right around the corner, I got to thinking back on Alastair Bland’s One-Week Wine tutorial from the pages of CRAFT Volume 03. Alastair crafted his first batch using wild-harvested mulberries, while bike-touring around the Greek countryside. Doesn’t get much eco-friendlier than that! Read on to whip up your own batch and pick […]
Every year, the San Francisco City Dump selects various local Bay Area artists for its coveted Recology Artist in Residence program. If chosen, the artists are granted every dumpster diver’s dream: 24-hour access to 44 acres of recycling facilities and public disposal areas — aka the Transfer Station, aka the dump. Each artist is given […]
I lived in a rental years ago that had a water tower on the property. Each year barn owls nested in the eaves of the water tower, and each year my husband and I spent many evenings sitting nearby watching them. We saw babies learn to fly, mother and father swoop in and out with […]
Los Angeles artist Shing Yin Khor was our Featured Maker about two weeks ago. She’s just added a few more of her trademark Petri dish monsters, which are selling fast. Shown at top is Maurice. Below that, in clockwise order, are Agatha, Lucy, Ed, and Buford. Oh, and Shing herself. She’s the one not in a Petri dish.
My friend, Jote, posted this recipe for a pesto grilled cheese sandwich, and it’s making my mouth water like crazy.
Combine a disposable syringe and a cheap hot glue gun into a pistol-applicator for solder flux paste.
I like my gardening to be easy, and cheap ain’t bad either. Eco-friendly, innovative, and giving a nod to old wives everywhere makes it the best! Here’s a list of the best gardening tips I’ve come across, in no particular order. We’d love to learn about your favorite tips — please offer them up in […]
