Gardening
Garden Construction: Bed Building
The process of building the raised beds was quite long. Unfortunately, I tend to remember only after I'm done that I should have taken pictures. If you're…
A personal notebook by James Zapico
Uncommon
adventures.
Making things. Growing things. Figuring things out along the way.
Notes from the garden, experiments in the kitchen, and the occasional detour into technology and everyday life.
A project, start to finish
Building a backyard.
Gardening
Garden Construction: Planning
There were a lot of things that went wrong in the garden construction process. That was really surprising and frustrating considering how much planning I…
Gardening
Garden Construction: Dirt
The previous garden construction posts took from September 2011 until January 2012 to complete. With the irrigation, raised beds and pergola complete, the…
From the notebook
The latest entries.
Canning
Pressure Canning Beef Stew
I didn't realize when I was learning to can to preserve my garden produce, but the benefits of canning extend to my low sodium diet. One of the most…
Canning
Pressure Canning Dry Run
Now that you've spent all your money buying the pressure canning equipment, it's time to practice! I could just say "Read the manual," but then I wouldn't…
Canning
Pressure Canning Equipment
I've recently added another time consumer to the list of things I do: Canning. It started as a way to preserve extra produce from the garden, and has been…
dribble / Linux / Beaglebone Black
Debian + BBB + ROS
I recently had the challenge of installing ROS on a Beaglebone Black running the latest Debian linux image. I won't go into the details of why I needed to…
Gardening
Garden Construction: Dirt
The previous garden construction posts took from September 2011 until January 2012 to complete. With the irrigation, raised beds and pergola complete, the…
The person behind the projects
Curiosity doesn't clock out.
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