Need help coaxing your sourdough starter to life? What can you do with all the discard? And what is a levain? Learn the answers to these questions and more.
Online Sauerkraut Workshop Lottery
Enter this lottery for a spot in my sauerkraut class and learn how to make this living, cultured food. Bring a cabbage to class or just watch.
Online Sourdough Starter Workshop Lottery
Learn how to start a sourdough starter, how to feed it and what to do with it. Bring your tools, flour and water and we’ll make our starters together.
Bake Sourdough Bread Without the Expensive Tools
Don’t let a want of fancy tools squelch your dreams of baking delicious sourdough bread. You may have most of the gear you need.
How to Help with the N95 Mask Shortage
In the richest country in the world, health care workers have begun to run out of personal protective equipment. Some are asking volunteers to sew masks.
Lockdown Cooking: 7 Humble Dishes from Staples
During the coronavirus pandemic, the more dishes you can make with simple ingredients you have on hand, the fewer trips you’ll need to make to the store.
Hunkered Down During COVID-19? Make Something.
Millions of us will stay hunkered down at home during COVID-19, either out of necessity or precaution. Now seems like a great time to learn a new skill.
I’m Quitting Plastic. What Do I Do With My Plastic Stuff?
You’ve decided to wean yourself from single-use plastic. But what do you do with all of the plastic stuff you still have in your home?
Will the Coronavirus Kill the Zero-Waste Movement?
Should we abandon the low-waste lifestyle during the coronavirus outbreak, avoid reusables and choose single-use throwaway items?
How Does Recycling Work and Should I Bother?
What gets recycled? What doesn’t? Why does recycling differ from place to place? A waste management student reveals these mysteries and more!
How to Keep Caring
Asking the question, “How do I keep caring?” shows not that we don’t care about the planet but that we may not be caring adequately for ourselves.
Sourdough Vegan Pancakes
If you start a sourdough starter, you’ll want to find ways to use up the excess. These 5-ingredient vegan sourdough pancakes call for an entire cup of unfed sourdough starter.
Online Petitions Can Lead to Change
Filling in the few fields of an online petition seems like literally the least we can do. But combined with other actions, online petitions can work.