Author Archives: EMAY

Let the cats be cats

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Renegade building at Ox-Bow in the year 2010 Part 2

The second interview in the series is with Mikey Henderberg, one of Ox-Bow’s longtime cooks and part time maintenance guy who is a master tinkerer, a true jack- of- all- trades. His projects this past summer include a brand new wood fired oven and a public solar shower. MH: The first bread oven was built […]
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Renegade building at Ox-Bow in the year 2010 Part 1

The architecture of Ox-Bow presents a study in contrasts that demonstrates the progression of the needs and personality of the campus as it has grown and shifted over the past 100 years. There has been much documentation and research of its rich architectural history- most recently an information-packed chronicle of the 40+ major buildings of […]
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“There’s Food in Them There Hills”

I am contributing a new semi- regular column about foraging to Chicago based local food website The Local Beet. Check out my first article about edible mushrooms that I have been collecting at Ox-Bow: http://www.thelocalbeet.com/2010/07/29/fungal-abundance-introducing-theres-food-in-them-there-hills/
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Dinner for Two 6/22

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Grow Room 6/4

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A New Menu Item at Super Sub

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Ideally

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Growing

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Rock Dove 3/10

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