Hacking Aerogarden seed pods
A few years ago I received an Aerogarden by Aerogrow as a Christmas gift. I love to cook so growing my own fresh herbs seemed like a great idea. My only real complaint was the cost of the replacement seed pods. So naturally I began to look for a way to make my own seed pods. I was inspired by a blog post I saw on Jung's Weblog. Jung is really into aeroponics and growing and cooking with her own veggies. Here is what I did:
I had to order a new pump which arrived today. I'll update in a few weeks if I get some growth.
The New Cavemen Lifestyle Has Found a Home in the City – NYTimes.com
The caveman lifestyle, in Mr. Durant’s interpretation, involves eating large quantities of meat and then fasting between meals to approximate the lean times that his distant ancestors faced between hunts. Vegetables and fruit are fine, but he avoids foods like bread that were unavailable before the invention of agriculture. Mr. Durant believes the human body evolved for a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and his goal is to wean himself off what he sees as many millenniums of bad habits.
via The New Cavemen Lifestyle Has Found a Home in the City - NYTimes.com.
THE FITNESS CONDUIT: high carb eating
Brilliant:
Everytime time you eat you make a choice to turn insulin on or off. Turning on insulin blunts lipolysis. Want to be a SUMO? Turn your insulin on full throttle with high carb eating.
Wonderful blueberries
Here is a picture I took with my iPhone while we were blueberry picking.
