Karin is a textile designer working for Boller Textile and Manfred is an engineer at PLANFORUM specializing in ecologically sound heating systems. These two just made their dream house in a small Swiss town with their architecht Baenninger + Partner. more...
Tired of your dog’s droopy face when you bake chocolate chips cookies? Making dog biscuits for your furry friend is easier than you think. more...
Textile designer Sabine Gartner and carpenter Helmut Oesting had the chance to buy a 20 square meter cottage on the Baltic Sea. It is idyllic and they have been able to join the lucky few that can live here. more...
More apples than you know what to do with? Drowning in berries? more...
Homemade hooch backyard style: keep an eye on your little brother On the day that I found out, I think I was about 9 years old. Callie, my older sister by about 3 years, burst into my room, ripped the comic book out of my hands, grabbed me by the shirt, and exclaimed, “Dude with, like, grapes you can, like, make wine!” I think her scheme at the time had been to make wine with raisins instead of grapes, the logic being that this would somehow take a stage out of the fermentation process and therefore yield booze that much faster. more...
A fairly recent lover of all things edible, I’ve spent the better part of my young adulthood trying out different foodstyles (the word I use to describe the way somebody eats). Messages about the “right” choices are all over the place, but in the name of DIY, I say, eat what tastes good to you and what makes sense to your life. more...
Ah, spring! When trees begin to shyly offer forth tender buds of crisp green potential, plants begin to peek unfurled heads timidly from the earth, and tightly bound blooms hold the mere promises of bursting flowers, and cooks everywhere admire nature’s miraculous regeneration… and immediately long to eat it. After a long, cold season of dense winter crops or deadened hothouse produce, nothing tempts quite as much as crisp, fresh, lively springtime fruits and vegetables. more...
A long and bitter winter has come to an end. Temperatures are rising, photosynthesis and pheromones igniting. more...
Chai is a fragrant spice mix combined with black tea and warm milk originally from India. I first had it in hippy coffee shops on the West Coast, and now rely on it as my morning wake-me-up. more...
Who has the time to sit down and embroider anything? Just the word sounds painstaking, time-consuming, intimidating. more...
