Pacific Flake Sea Salt
Pacific Flake Sea Salt is a salt harvestry located in a tiny corner of what was once a huge Louisiana Pacific pulp mill out on the Samoa Peninsula, just across Humboldt Bay from my hometown of Eureka, California.
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Yelm
“Yelming” is part of the thatcher’s trade: to yelm is to prepare the gathered straw, sorting it by size, laying it out flat, and in some techniques, dampening it with water.
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Amaranth
The amaranth (Amaranthaceae) family encompasses a surprising and diverse number of useful plants that you see everyday, but probably would never guess are this closely related.
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Silver
Since antiquity, silver has been considered a precious metal in many different cultures. But there are a few things about silver that you probably don’t know.
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Eugene Saturday Market
The Eugene Saturday Market is a treasure trove of Crazy Useful Things.
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Cashew
The cashew (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical evergreen tree in the sumac (Anacardiaceae) family, native to northern and western South America and Brazil, but now widely cultivated in tropical areas around the world.
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