Rusty Ring

(This old house, near my childhood home, was once the residence of a family who owned and operated a dairy farm on the premises. The farm...

'Way back in the first weeks of this blog I posted on the sourdough bread that's been part of my monastic practice since b...

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. Be brave. – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Photo of young Iranians standing ...

Last week I was down to the tea bog I've frequented for 50 years, and while there, under dark wet skies, I snapped a few (not very ...

(When I was a kid, the forest floor in my neck of the woods was full of big ragged holes like this one. When I asked the grups what ...

Unlikely as it seems, this common plant of the high tide line ( Salicornia spp. ) is a member of the spinach family, and a righteous edi...

(Silqua patula)

(Fresh-dug that day.)

(I recently found this well-used First Nations clam gun [right] in the surf. It's in fine shape; the tape is apparently just pad...

(I just uploaded a hermitcraft article last week, but a reader recently asked about sourdough starter, so I'll go ahea...

I had a lot of fun building this structure, which is about a foot and a half long by a little less wide. It encloses an electrica...

This is an ancestor gong I made from an old saw blade I found in my grandfather's shop. Each time you ring it, it sings gratitude...

My nephew fishes in the lake I grew up on (The following is adapted from Growing Up Home , a manuscript of tales from my youth.) ...

(A soda-free, wild yeast-raised, classic sourdough version of this bread can be found here . If you landed here looking for the rec...