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Dear Flush Toilet, How we don’t need thee.
You waste 2 gallons of water per flush. The average person flushes you 4 times per day. So daily, per person 8 gallons of water, usually drinking quality, go down the toilet. Literally. What a lovely thing to do to perfectly good water, eh? […] We traveled across the state to spend two nights in Senguio, Michoacán, for their annual mushroom fair (La Fería de Hongos).
Senguio is a small town close to Ciudad Hidalgo. Once a year its residents host the mushroom fair. They set up a long table full of identified wild mushrooms. Several stands […]
Oh, we feel so sorry for our poor tomato plants. They have a hard life in this climate. During the dry season we choose a few to water with our kitchen greywater, but aphids become a problem. During the rainy season they tend to rot, […] Thousands of mushrooms have begun popping up all over the forest in the last couple of weeks.
Four obvious mushrooms grow here in the forest that we can harvest to eat. There are a number of other mushrooms that are edible and those with experience sometimes harvest them […] Tomatoes are in season. This means they are cheap – as little as 3 pesos per kilo (about 10 cents per pound). So we bought boxes of tomatoes to preserve them so that during their most expensive time we can still enjoy salsas and tomato sauces for pasta without paying nearly six times as much […] |