How to Share Your Homebrew With Your Kids: Spent Grain Recipes

Making beer is a lot like making tea. Except when you’re finished making tea, you drink the tea and throw out the leaves. When you’re finished with the first step of making beer, you put the brew in a giant bucket and throw away a massive glob of wet grains. Or do you? It’s a [...]

Home compost workshop

The Contra Costa County Department of Conservation and Development holds a free composting workshop Saturday, Feb. 11 from 10 a.m. to noon at Delta Community Presbyterian Church, 1900 Willow Lake Road in Discovery Bay.

Review: ‘The Flame Alphabet’ leaves reader cold

Many a reader is bound to balk at the premise of Ben Marcus’s second novel, “The Flame Alphabet” : In a United States bearing a vague similarity to the real thing, the speech of children kills adults. If this were a droll take on the wearing nature of parenthood, comical possibilities might present themselves. But the execution here is fairly sober-sided, leaving the premise to seem, in sci-fi ...

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On his parents’ farm on Signal Mountain, Ryan Walden does something no other farmers in this area do - grow mushrooms. He has a specialty called the “Blue Oyster Mushroom” and he grows “Shitake” as well.

San Antonio steps up recycling

San Antonio steps up recycling EXPRESS-NEWS Copyright 2012 EXPRESS-NEWS. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 02:34 a.m., Monday, November 28, 2011 The city's goal is to divert 60 percent of garbage from landfills by 2020. In the past five years, San Antonio has increased its recycling rate from 10 percent to 25 percent.