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The Homegrown Cigar

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Let me preface this by saying I don’t smoke. (Militantly so.) But I do have to understand how everything is made. So when I learned that the flowering tobacco I had […]

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DIY, Homesteading

Old-Fashioned Birch Beer Soda

May 24, 2017by The Crunchy Urbanite 4 Comments

Scrape black birch and it smells like wintergreen. Boil it and you’ve got the basis for an old-fashioned Americana soda that’s somewhere in the root beer family.

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DIY, Homebrewing, Homesteading, Recipes

Mint Hydrosol

May 1, 2017by The Crunchy Urbanite Leave a comment

Sometimes called floral waters, hydrosols are a very rudimentary eau de toilette. Or a different way to think about it: the beginner’s foray into essential oil extraction. Common uses for hydrosols […]

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Cleaning, DIY, Homesteading

Apple Cider Vinegar

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I go through a lot of apple cider vinegar. Like, a lot. But buying the good stuff was starting to add up, and I thought: Can’t I just make this myself? So […]

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DIY, Health, Homesteading, Recipes, Sustainability

Pure Mint Extract

February 19, 2017by The Crunchy Urbanite Leave a comment

Extracts are one of those things where the moment you realize how simple they are to make, you kick yourself for ever thinking you needed to buy them. This example […]

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DIY, Homesteading, Recipes

Urban Farming: Vertical Tomatoes

May 10, 2016by The Crunchy Urbanite 2 Comments

Here in New York, a garden is a lot like a walk-in closet — most of us gave up praying for one ages ago. But for those of us hell-bent […]

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DIY, Homesteading, Sustainability, Urban Gardening

Soap Rebatching

April 27, 2016by The Crunchy Urbanite 2 Comments

Soap rebatching: because sometimes s#!t happens. Why rebatch soap? Well, for any number of reasons. Maybe it cooled too quickly the first round and still needs a couple more hours. […]

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DIY, Grooming / Beauty, Homesteading

Coffee Soap

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I’m constantly on the lookout for new and exciting ways to cover my body in coffee.  If you’ve got a half-finished pot, some spent grounds, and a basic understanding of safe soap-making […]

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DIY, Grooming / Beauty, Homesteading

Homemade Organic Sunscreen

July 9, 2014by The Crunchy Urbanite 2 Comments

I have a confession: I frigging love the sun. As health-conscious as I try to be, I will happily run around outside all summer long until I turn a deep mahogany. […]

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DIY, Grooming / Beauty, Health, Homesteading, Sustainability

All-Natural Toothpaste

April 16, 2014by The Crunchy Urbanite 22 Comments

For many of us, toothpaste was our first foray into the world of DIY personal-care products. We glumped some wet baking soda onto a toothbrush and never looked back. Making […]

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DIY, Grooming / Beauty, Health, Homesteading

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