Theory & Practice: from Lab to Lifestyle

Sunday, July 9, 2017

🌻🍃🍅 No. 6: On the Theme of Excess 🍃 #100GardenHacks

I am working on a project for the 2017
growing season to work my way through
100 garden hacks*.

On the Theme of Excess

The summer holidays and events left us with a severe excess of leftover beer this summer, and after a few weeks this cache of quantity-not-quality beer has still not died down.

After discovering some good friends also had their own battle of leftover brews and enlisted our help to dwindle the supply, I decided to find alternative disposal methods.

Some quick uses to help clear the fridges included:

Using beer to soak beans

easy beer bread making and

tips for when that bread does not turn out so great!

cleaning vitreous enamel surfaces (e.g. toilet & enamel sink)
marinating meats and vegetables:

SAMUEL ADAMS® SUMMER ALE URBAN CLAMBAKE

And discovering this phenomenon is a very common problem: 10 Things You Can Do With Leftover Beer - I took note of idea 9, using the bottles or cans in a gift basket or other decorative garnishes to a party plate or #10 in a summer gift basket.

🕊, 💌, & 🍃
~KF

*101+ Garden Hacks magazine. 2017. Rodale, Inc.

I found this copy on a CVS magazine stand :)
However, portions of this publication
previously appeared at RodaleOrganicLife.com

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Rain Tracks In My Mom's Garage

A few families decided to go in on a garage sale with my Mom in her garage. We were plagues with rain on and off all weekend, but in one fit of boredom I couldn't help but notice some fun patterns on the concrete.

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Monday, July 3, 2017

More unpacking finds! My microbiology dolls have a new home. 😀

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Sunday, July 2, 2017

Still unpacking from my Chicago life and finally reunited with my favorite mug after 16 months.

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Friday, June 30, 2017

More major cleanup, sorting, and salvaging of the back greenhouse

Grapes of Wrath

More major cleanup, sorting, and salvaging

of the back greenhouse

Here's the curse of being a part of small grassroots community group - it's a working board of directors, some of the hardest-working people you could meet. Try to keep up!

Today's board meeting took on a herculean task of moving forward on cleaning up the big back houses that were completely abandoned and filled overwhelmingly with a mix of supplies, dumped waste/refuse, and other abandoned furniture, tires, you name it. As always, it takes ten times longer to do anything responsibly. Trying to salvage, recycle, and deal appropriately wth the mystery chemicals, we cost ourselves more time, but's worth it to see such big strides done in such a feel good way.

Our benefactor of a neighbor wants to hold an auction in that greenhouse and offered to clear away the trash, waste, and debris for us, so we needed to go through one last time and :

Consolidate anything reusable/repurposeful, etc.

Found some good reusable/repurposeful doors

Identify the regular trash from the mystery waste/environmental concernables, e.t.c.

Survive the eighty-degree, high humidity and the constant sneezing and choking on particulate matter. By mid-task it was difficult to avoid being annoyed by your own immune system for the constant sneezing.