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Fall recipe book
Some favorites for root vegetables, quince, and more
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Julia Skinner

October 2024

Not all food preserving resources are good resources
(and how to tell which ones are)
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On the history of cheese
A snippet from my early drafts
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Crafting wilderness
Foraging for plants is only one part of the story
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Weathering storms
A list with some ways to help
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Julia Skinner

September 2024

We Find History in Quiet Places
And our tendencies to overlook the power of everyday magic in the buildings around us
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An invitation for you
Join me, in person, for a very special book event next month
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Becoming Mycelial
An Essay on our networked lives
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When life hands you fish skins, make art
The long-awaited fish skin parchment tutorial (plus ASMR video)
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Curing, drying, smoking
On remembering a culinary language I don't often speak
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How to use six mangoes
Recipes to honor this fruit from pit to peel
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August 2024

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Your feedback on this newsletter (and where we're going next)
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