• Old wagon wheels with strakes.
  • Coppice in a field of colza
  • A bloomery in Bloomery, West Virginia
  • Thatched roof cottage, Germany
  • Propolis at the edge of a beehive
  • Ashlar stonework Palazzo Rucellai Florence Italy
  • Fulling Mill, by Georg Andreas Bockler
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Crazy Useful Things

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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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How much wax does the average American eat in one year?

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If there are over 8000 species of insect known to be edible, why don’t we eat more bugs?

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