This concludes the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back, Part 3: Left Back.)

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This continues the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back.)

( Walk with me ... )

This continues the tour of the Charleston Food Forest.  (See Part 1: Right Front.)

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My partner Doug spotted this place recently, and today we explored the Charleston Food Forest and its plants.  (See Part 2 Right Back, Part 3: Left Back, Part 4 Left Front, and What I'm Growing.)  It's a skinny rectangle, and not all that big.  If you cut it in half and lined the halves up as a square, then it would fit in a typical town yard ( Read more... )

Our new garden shed arrived today!  :D 3q3q3q!!! I'm so excited.  It's made by Everlast, which has distributors in a bunch of places around central Illinois.

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I've mentioned before that in Terramagne-America, the states (and some smaller regions or major cities) have local author networks such that individuals or institutions can subscribe to them.  It's usually an option within major providers of e-reading content; libraries and waiting rooms typically have e-readers for guests to use, where you can ( Read more... )

So I was touching up my wishlist and discovered that Vena's Fizz House posts mocktail and cocktail recipes for some of their mixology products.  A Forest Primeval is typical of Terramagne-American drinks.  I think Shiv would love this one.

Their bitters really, really hark back to the medicinal roots of these concoctions.  (Also available in single ( Read more... )

This man repairs cars and gives them away. 

Food Network Magazine (September 2021) has a promotion on page 18 about Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month (starting Sept. 15). It consists of a cocktail recipe, a meat recipe, a list of cookbooks, a list of cooking classes, and a search tag (supported by Yelp and Momento Latino) for locating Latinx-owned restaurants.

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The other day, I spotted a Naf Naf restaurant in Champaign, which turned out to be a Middle Eastern grill. Yesterday Doug spotted another in Greenup of all places, so we went back to that one today. See a locator page to search for one in your area. So far they're mostly in the Midwest with a few farther east. It is absolutely worth your while ( Read more... )