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Low impact living in Wales

Looking to live simply and in harmony with the land they would raise their children on, one couple in Wales set out to build a hand crafted house on a modest budget.

The basic construction is a series of vertical posts in an oval, the tops of which are connected with horizontals. This ring of horizontal pieces makes what is conventionally referred to as a roofplate or wallplate. The horizontals are 'tennoned' into the posts although a simpler alternative is to 'half lap' the horizontals and use a metal bar / big nails to fix the joint on top of the post.

Their site has lots of details about the construction, theory behind the build, and ideology surrounding their choices. The photos page has full sized images of all the pictures on the site.
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Monthly best of Make: en Español

Fabricación de modelos navales con partes reutilizadas Se buscan Makers Jordi Muñoz, orgulloso Maker mexicano Arte Rupestre - (English) Tagtool en Cholula - (English) Mini generador eléctrico con motor de CD More: Make: en Español
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Garlic scapes - What to do?

For the past few years our two 4' x 8' raised beds have been fully dedicated to garlic production. The ultimate lazy crop, you plant garlic in the Fall, let it do its thing over the Winter, weed it a few times, cut the scapes in early July, then harvest it in late July. After a little bit of drying, you have enough garlic to last at least a few months.

Cutting the scapes, or emerging buds that flower and then turn into above ground seed pods, will help your underground garlic heads grow nice and fat. The way I see it is that the plant can focus on the work of growing the bulb below the ground instead of sending nutrients to the flowering and seedbuilding upstairs. At the three farmer's markets I have been to this week, garlic scapes have been on at least a few counters. The other day I went out in the latest edition of the rainy day, and snipped off a bucket load of aromatic garlic scapes. I left a few on the stalk, because these ones will give bulbs with fewer cloves in them.

So after you cut the scapes, what do you do with them? My first guess was, saute them in oil, dump some eggs on top and make an omelette. That worked out pretty good, but now what?

Here are a few ideas for recipes:
Garlic pesto

liked the flavor of the pesto quite a bit, but in the recipe I'm giving you I reduced the amount of garlic scapes and increased the amount of cheese quite a bit from the recipe I tried. Making pesto is an art, not a science anyway, so if you happen to stumble on some garlic scapes, give it a try and decide for yourself.

Lots of recipes from Claget Farm. Mariquita Farm has some great ideas too. The Amateur Gourmet discovers that working with them in the kitchen is at least a little bit different from octopus wrestling.

Not Without Salt has some very nice photographs along with some tasty recipes and stories about the love of garlic scapes.

What are your favorite recipes for garlic scapes? Serve them up in the comments!
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TagTool goes partying

This at the "Saint Andrew's strip" in Cholula. Felixe (Mexico) took his freshly baked TagTool to get some air in a reknowned bar where it livened up the party and inspired a healthy interactive night.
All the equipment is on the table: DIY TagTool with Arduino inside, laptop to connect it to, Wacom to draw and write, game controller to make everything (and everyone) wiggle. Hours of fun!
 
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CRAFT weekly recap

This week on CRAFT we saw:
Wind-Powered Knitting Machine  
Recipe: Dark Chocolate Gelato
How-To: Homemade Stickers
Girlie Gundam
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