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The Center for Subsistence Research

a swarm in june is worth a silver spoon

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  • Sarah Lewison

Category: Subsistence Research

The Center for Subsistence Research is a mobile, ad-hoc experimental institute pursuing needs based, sustainable, localized and cooperative economic activities and education. Currently the Center is based at Understory Community Kitchen and Incubator at 216 N Washington St Carbondale, IL

Carbondale Seed Swap (year of the ox)

sacamixta@gmail.com Carbondale communities, Subsistence Research

Swap heirloom and open pollinated seeds. Valet service. Masks required. Saturday March 6 from 9- 1 at 214 N Washington St Carbondale

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Quarantine Chickens and Carbondale Spring

sacamixta@gmail.com Carbondale communities, creative project, Subsistence Research

Here is the idea hatched by Carbondale Spring to foster food autonomy in the city of Carbondale and environs and published in Quaranzine, a short

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Report back from the Zapatista Women’s International Gathering

sacamixta@gmail.com Carbondale communities, Subsistence Research, Understory Kitchen

In early March four of us from Southern Illinois flew to Chiapas to attend the First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for

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Making sauerkraut

sacamixta@gmail.com Subsistence Research

The Center for Subsistence Research/ Understory community kitchen teamed up with Foodworks, a regional organization that helps support independent small farmers on a sauerkraut making

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Pickles in translation: Autopoiesis and vibration

sacamixta@gmail.com creative project, Subsistence Research

Salt fermentation is the dirty-delicious- point in the spectrum of fungal-human commensality. The colonies that characterize fermentation begin with logarithmic expansion, leading to a plateau

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Seed Swap 2016

sacamixta@gmail.com Subsistence Research

At the seed swap we asked people what they know about subsistence. One man called it a lost art- we like that! Another old timer

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