Lawns could serve many purposes: feeding cows or sheep, serving as a sports field, or carpeting a picnic area. But do most lawns actually get used for anything useful? What good are they really?
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This is Chapter 6/10 of Flight From the City by Ralph Borsodi, narrated by Joseph Bjork.
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In which we used better magnetite ore and an improved furnace design to, once again, produce little more than slag. At this point, we didn't really know what we were doing, but we learned a lot doing it.
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In which JF returns to eating parched corn, this time with the addition of beef jerky for protein and a little fat. 97.1% of people won't believe what happens when you try this one weird diet trick!
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Both Josephs are out on adventures without an internet connection, so we're taking a two week or so break from posting. JB is at a permaculture event and JF is camping, but we'll have some awesome stuff coming up when we get back.
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In which we attempt to smelt our new stash of ore in a furnace designed to run without bellows. The taller furnace is filled only partway with the charcoal and ore mixture and the rising hot gasses create enough suction to pull air in the bottom of the furnace, but will that air have enough pressure or volume to go through all the ore and charcoal and maintain the necessary temperature?
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In which JF and JB are pleasantly surprised at how comfortable a Fremont Pit-House is in the heat of the day.
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Filmed at the Frontier Homestead Museum in Cedar City, Utah.
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This is part 2 of what I hope will be a series of long-form discussions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. To quote the author: "Now that we do have some time, and know it, I would like to use the time to talk in depth about things that seem important." This video discusses what a chautauqua is, and why Pirsig chooses to use this format. It also explains why the idea that attitude matters isn't just subjective mumbo-jumbo.
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Smelting, textiles, grain milling, scythes--what do these all have in common? All of these projects help us understand appropriate technology--roughly, technology that satisfies a wider spectrum of values than economic "efficiency." We also talk about why we can often look to the past to find these technologies, the fact that they often appear to be "low-tech," and some common characteristics of appropriate technologies.
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