![]() ![]() His neighbor Catfish had droopy whiskers and fleshy cheeks. ![]() “If the Man comes around, you can’t give him any incriminating information.” Mostly, though, the names fit the faces: Clover was pale, slender, and sweet-natured, with fine blond hair gathered in a bun. “It came out of the security culture of the old Earth First! days,” another opportunivore told me. “We didn’t put in the pinks,” Clover told me.Ĭlover’s pseudonym both signalled his emancipation from a wasteful society and offered a thin buffer against its authorities. ![]() The whole compound was painted a sickly greenish gray-the unhappy marriage of twenty-three cans of surplus paint from Home Depot. The sinks, disconnected from the sewer, spilled their effluent into plastic buckets, providing water for root crops in the gardens. The walls and ceilings, chicken coop and solar oven were held together with scrap lumber and drywall. Abandoned by its previous owners, condemned by the city, and minimally rehabilitated, it was occupied-perhaps infested is a better word-by a loose affiliation of opportunivores. It sat on a weedy lot in a dishevelled section of Asheville, North Carolina. ![]() The house at 40 Congress Street wouldn’t have been my first choice for lunch. Simple and safe to make, it leads novice picklers to more offbeat practices. Sauerkraut is Sandor Katz’s gateway drug. ![]()
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