Crazy Useful
Your Guide to Natural resources, products, and cottage industries
Tag: cottage industry
Master of Cottage Industry: Pacific Flake Sea Salt
Pacific Flake Sea Salt is a salt harvestry located in a tiny corner of what was once a huge Louisiana Pacific pulp mill out on the Samoa Peninsula, just across Humboldt Bay from my hometown of Eureka, California.
Word of the Day: Coppice
A coppice (also known as a copse) is a thicket of small trees and shrubs, typically those whose slender trunks and branches (or withies) are cut periodically for a variety of uses. The word also refers to a tree’s ability to regrow shoots from… Continue Reading “Word of the Day: Coppice”
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Crazy Useful Things: A Dictionary of Natural Resources and Their Products
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