A former roommate had a simple rule about home brewing beer: Drink your mistakes. This was not the easiest rule to live by, but on one occasion he followed his rule and drank most of a 5 gallon batch of pale ale. Another roommate and I helped, a little, but it was […]
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Digest: My fair piggy, agribusiness lab rats, mo’ Reichl, Lunchables report card
San Francisco Chronicle: The Day in Pictures features this incredibly sweet photo, by Russ Dillingham of the Lewiston Sun Journal, of a girl and her pig. [Corn Maven: Knowing the pig will be sold later on makes this photo kind of heartbreaking.]
Monterey County Herald: Originally written for the Land Institute’s Prairie Writers Circle, olive […]
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