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Crazy Useful Things

Start your exploration of cottage industry by getting in touch with the raw materials that make it happen.

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Peruvian hand weaving.

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A compendium of cottage industries and legacy skills: from the past, in the present and for the future.

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Resources for buying and selling, to help you launch your own personal cottage industry revolution.

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Crazy Useful Thing of the Day: Silver

Silver is a metallic element that has the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. Since antiquity, it has been considered a precious metal in many different cultures.  It has many uses, including but not limited to: bullion coins (such as…

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Heidi McDonald

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Crazy Useful Thing of the Day: Amaranth

The amaranth (Amaranthaceae) family encompasses a surprising and diverse number of useful plants that you see everyday, but probably would never guess are this closely related. For example: Beets (Beta vulgaris) The beet is presumed to have originated in the region around the Mediterranean,…

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Heidi McDonald

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Crazy Useful Thing of the Day: Cashew

The cashew (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical evergreen tree in the sumac (Anacardiaceae) family, native to northern and western South America and Brazil, but now widely cultivated in tropical areas around the world.  It is cultivated mainly for its edible seed (the cashew), as…

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Heidi McDonald

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