From Godfrey Stephens.
It’s at Oak Bay, Victoria, BC, Canada
From a few weeks ago. The 1st part is mostly about local homebuilding, gardening, and farming in our town in the ’70s. Also domes, building advice, discussion of the ’60s and the Whole Earth Catalog, tiny homes and more. The last part, where I show slides of maybe 100 tools, doesn’t work for an audio broadcast, but we’re working on a a slide show with brief voiceover that we’ll post, probably in a few weeks.
https://tns.commonweal.org/podcasts/lloyd-kahn-2/
Here is a list of the tools, with links to the manufacturers: https://www.shelterpub.com/_homestead/tools.html
“It looks like something straight out of Middle Earth – and the story behind it is almost as fantastical.
This cottage cost just £150 to build, using only natural or reclaimed materials, and is now rented out for a fee of fresh milk and cream.
And with no mains electricity, gas or water, the bills don’t come to much either.…”
More photos and a video here.
From David Wills
November 15, 2013
“Hi
have you seen this?”
Ladia (Ladislav Blaha)
https://shltr.net/1kbBPGc
Organic growers have been saying this for years. One grower told me (somewhat facetiously) years ago, “People are smoking Paraquat.” Now the scientists are catching up. Lesson here: know your grower.
“…On the pesticide issue, Raber said it’s important to remember that smoking a marijuana bud that’s been sprayed with chemicals is far different than eating a non-organic tomato. First and foremost, he said, there are no controls over what’s sprayed on marijuana crops. And, while most people would rinse off a tomato before eating it, they can’t wash a bud before putting it in their pipe. The body also has filters in place for things that are ingested, he said, but not for what’s inhaled.
‘You don’t have the first pass metabolism of the liver,” he said. “You don’t have the lack of absorptivity going through the stomach or the gut lining. It’s a very different equation when you’re inhaling.’
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“In Austin, Texas, a project to offer affordable housing to some 200 chronically homeless citizens is on the move. Community First! Village, which has been in the planning stages for nearly 10 years, is set to soon break ground on a 27-acre property sprinkled with tiny houses, mobile homes, teepees, refurbished RVs, a three-acre community garden, a chapel, a medical facility, a workshop, a bed and breakfast, and an Alamo Drafthouse outdoor movie theater.…”
Click here.
I’m the dunce fisherman of my family. My grandfather had a bait and tackle shop in San Francisco in the early 1900s (and made bamboo fishing rods), my dad was a fresh and salt water fisherman, my brother Bob has for years had a Double-ended Monterey, my brother Carl fished commercially for a while. And me — I guess I just don’t have the patience — if they’re not biting, I’m outta there.
BUT I’m trying to increase my seafood intake. Saturday went on long beach walk with my buddy Jack Fulton, picked up some mussels (had for dinner last night). Jack shot this pic of me heading out to the mussels.
Then last night I managed to catch 4 eels and now I’m gonna prepare them to be smoked tomorrow.
It’s, um, possible I’ve said all this before — ah, me.
“Hi Lloyd,
I’m writing for a couple of reasons. First is to say thanks for all the inspiration and information.
In 2007 a friend gave us a copy of Homework. Thus began our quest to find our own little piece of the earth to create our idealized “artist playground.” Sometimes we would lose faith and moan “Why can’t it still be the 1970s so we could just go out and find an old farm that no one wants anymore. If only we had a time machine!” Along the way we picked up a copy of Shelter and then things really kicked in. Our senses of belief, freedom and possibility where bolstered and we plowed on through the seemingly endless array of realty jargon, money questions and what-the-hell-are-we-doing moments.
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Each time I do it, I don’t know why I don’t do it more often. Last week, coming down the coast, I parked and hiked for about 45 minutes to get to a secluded Sonoma County beach. I had a new super lightweight tent and I ended up like the Keystone Cops setting it up because I hate reading directions. It took me like a half hour to do something that should’ve taken four minutes.
But it was a nice night. I roasted a local pigeon (from the freezer), and a potato and onion, both wrapped in foil, over the coals. Half a bottle of red wine. Sat around the fire for a few hours, surf crashing, no electronic devices.
Rick has been working over a month now on the 1000 images in the book, using Photoshop to enhance (and sometimes rescue) the photos. He’s just about finished. As of a few days ago, we finished layout of the last pages. Next we’ve got a round of corrections, then proofreading, then printing out the entire book full size on Epson proofing paper.
For the last week I’ve been fooling around with a title page showing people in the book. Here’s the latest version, just finished this morning. Scissors and removable scotch tape at this stage.
We’re working on a bunch of ideas for the cover. Nothing solid yet. Subtitle: Wheels & Water.
Target date is books in stores by May.
We’ve had orders for 2100 copies of Tiny Homes this month, and the month isn’t even over. Saving our bacon.
From Godfrey Stephens.
