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On a quest for the perfect pizza and other culinary adventures with my earthen oven

My clay-rich Pennsylvania subsoil provided the primary building material In Hoboken, my home for over 50 years, you only need to walk a few blocks to find a pizzeria, yet I rarely bought a slice, let alone a whole pie. I have a second home in rural Pennsylvania and a year ago, I built an [...]

By |2024-10-16T21:25:57-04:00October 12th, 2024|environment, farm & garden|

Building my eco-friendly pottery studio

Sequestering carbon and reducing energy consumption with hempcrete In 2007, I bought 37 rural acres in Damascus, Pennsylvania, that included two post-and-beam barns, a 1910 farmhouse, and an old, sagging chicken coop. My long-delayed plan to convert the chicken coop to my new pottery studio finally got started [...]

By |2024-10-14T22:02:46-04:00January 24th, 2023|environment, pottery|
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