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blue bottle garage

biscuit — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:27:50 +0000

Dignified and delicious: Blue Bottle’s got the west coast cornered in terms of proper espresso… but no one, that’s no one, comes close to Joe’s.

compost

biscuit — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:56:25 +0000

Feeding frenzy: Our red wrigglers are about to receive a biological feast. Full of coffee, orange peels and fava bean discards, the meal promotes cardio and muscular development in the little guys.

almost naked portafilter

biscuit — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:20:20 +0000

Training wheels: We can’t find a naked portafilter for our Europiccola La Pavoni (pre 2000), so we did the next best thing by taking the splitter off. Just twist and off it comes.

sorting worms

biscuit — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:13:10 +0000

Go Eisenia Fetida – the real Eco Warriors: The magic of worms in the compost. We got tired of waiting for our compost to do something, so we added red wrigglers. Now they get a hearty dose of veggie scraps, coffee grounds, hair, dryer lint (no meat, oil, and citrus in limited quantities) and shreds from the printer. Since we started with a large bin, now we have a lot of worms. The trick is to separate worm from casting. We do it by feeding half the bin for months at a time; the idea is that the worms will migrate to the food half, and then it’s easier to gather castings from the other half. Then we dump a few shovelfuls on a piece of paper and sort: keep one container for the worms, one for the castings, and one for pieces of uncomposted food and sticks to throw away. Our worms seem incredibly lazy, they never seem to migrate, so the sorting is a bit of a chore, but it’s worth it!

royal balance coffee with Dr. Carl

dlw — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:51:24 +0000