If you aren’t familiar with the gardening conditions in Austin, let me tell you, they’re pretty terrible. Tomatoes in particular have a terrible time of it. Austin hits fatal extremes of heat and cold. You have to plant tomatoes after the danger of frost, but early enough that they fruit before the heat sets in.
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A few years ago, my cousin Kelly put together a list of summer events which she called the Best Summer Ever. This list was optimized for Minneapolis, but it got me thinking that there ought to be a list for Austin. After the summer we had last year, we need a palate-cleanser summer, a summer
Let’s try another version of the green grape mustang pie! This is essentially the rhubarb pie recipe you’ll see up north, but with the green grapes substituted for the aforementioned sour stems. I like this recipe in a different way than I like the other green grape pie recipe. Because the fruit is baked in
Since I sometimes get requests for this pie recipe, I thought I would publish it for the world here. This is a selection from a guidebook in progress called “Central Texas Urban Foraging” which I’ve been writing with Kim Hill of KimCovers512.com. Of all the pies we’ve made, this one has the most enthusiastic fan
A while ago, a friend of mine living in California sent me an article from Business Insider that had been making the rounds. It’s paywalled, so to save you a click, I’ll summarize it. A Silicon Valley tech bro named Brett Adler moved his family to Austin, grew disenchanted, and then moved back to California
I am currently in a project with my colleague Kim Hill, writing a book about foraging for wild foods in an urban environment. As an aside, I included the recipe for “That Creamy Green Sauce”, and as a public service, I’m excerpting that recipe here. Because you have lived too long without being empowered to
I’m working on a project to create a writing device optimized for writing fiction. I figured one of the bigger reasons why I wasn’t writing anymore was the lack of a consistent writing platform. I’ve had some setbacks in the project, and compromises, and it’s not done yet, more on this project later. But the
For more than ten years now I’ve been going to see the purple martins. Every summer, from around the second week of July until the second week of August, the purple martins form a roost in a conspicuous urban location, typically a parking lot. When the sun sets, they swarm by the hundreds of thousands,
Central Texas Hunting Season Calendar 2018-19
An Unofficial Public Google Calendar for Texas Hunters If you’re like me, sometime during mid November or late December you lose track of exactly which animals you can legally take a shot at. There’s the duck season that might be going on, or maybe we’re between the split? Or is it okay to shoot at
Taxes Procrastination
I’ve had the folder with all my tax documentation sitting on my desk for months now. I had intended to do them early in January (I’m the guy who hands out the W-2s at my job, so everybody got them about a week into the new year), but when I went to the IRS website