A CCAT Love Letter Table of Contents

A Word From Our Co-Directors 3

CCAT. My heart sings its name
in rejoicing splendor at the break of
each fresh day. My submergence in
the benevolent community known
as the Campus Center for Appropri-
ate Technology marks the exodus
from the dark shores of my hopeless
island. CCAT is more than a house
and collage of smiling faces. CCAT
has the potential for an individual to
embark on a quest fueled by commu-
nity support and the loving chorus of
a planet worth saving. Now, I should
never be so brash as to say that what
is done on that small patch of land is
the answer to the multitude of baf-
fling, incomprehensible, and frankly
frightening questions posed upon Garden Update 4
our most fortunate generation; but I
would be so brash as to say that it is Water Power Systems 5
a first step towards the inner peace of Greenhouse Gala 5
an effort worth undertaking. Unfor-
tunately it is simultaneously a step Former Directors Check In 6, 7
away from the inner peace afforded Systems Analysis Update 7
by the comfort of a mind unknowing.
If but a single shred of my humanity Vermicomposting 8
were to remain upon the rising of the
Solar Hot Water at CCAT 9
future’s sun I would wish it be that
shred that is embodied by CCAT and Do-It-Yourself Projects 10
those who call it home.
Recipes From CCAT 11
- Maxwell Hewes - CCAT Classes for Spring 2010 12
CCAT Volunteer

The CCAT mission is:

• to demonstrate appropriate technology in a residential setting
• to provide hands-on experiential learning opportunities to Humboldt State
University and the surrounding community.
• to collect and disseminate information about appropriate technology
• to examine the ethical and social consequences of technology
• and to dispel the myth that living lightly on the earth is difficult or burdensome.
CCAT is dedicated to sustainability and seeks to help others live likewise.
“The A.T. Transfer is the official newsletter of
the Campus Center for Appropriate Technol-
ogy, which is funded by the Associated Stu-
dents of Humboldt State University. The views
and content of the A.T. Transfer are not cen-
sored or reviewed by the Associated Students”

The Fall 2009 CCAT Staff

Editors:
Raymond Lombardi
Philip Lucas

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 Times Are A Changin’
A Word From Departing and Incoming Co-Directors
It has been almost four years
since I first got involved with
CCAT. The first time I saw the
Buck House it was on blocks in the
construction yard and the CCAT
program was operating out of the
Jenky Jenkins House. I had no idea
what CCAT was at that point. All
I remembered was a dedicated
group of students with hammers
and hilarious attire going to town
remodeling the Buck House. To
be a part of it I did what I could; I
picked up a hammer and started
swinging it. In the years since, it
has brought me great contentment
to have witnessed and been a part
of the rebirth of the Buck House on
its new grounds.
I came to this university moti-
vated with the to educate myself
in the sustainable arts. I say sus-
tainainable arts, because sustain-
ability is too vague and there are
so many components to it. To
me, sustainable arts are the adop-
tion of sustainable practices into
one’s daily life with the intention
of treating each practice as an art
that can be improved or adapted
to be an expression of one’s self.
The intention is to create a person-
alized link between one’s self and
the environment.
With that commitment in
mind, I created an Interdisciplin-
ary Studies Major titled Sustain-
able Communities. This major
focuses on community planning,
construction, and life, with a par-
ticular focus on sustainable archi-
tecture as an art and expression of
the environment-human relation-
ship.
What do I want to bring to
CCAT? To reestablish the physi-
cal infrastructure of the property.
Current projects in this field in-
clude the new workshop and green
house. Aside from physical contri-
butions, I would like to offer what-
ever inspiration I can to others. I
want to contribute to the driving
force which facilitates change.
CCAT has inspired and nur-
tured many ideas for me over the
years, and now it is time to give
back to the community that has
provided for me. And that is how
I come to introduce myself as the
next swing shift co-director com-
ing on board in January 2010.
- Myles Danforth -
CCAT has been an expe-
rience filled with trials and
triumphs. All I can say at
this point in time, after hav-
ing spent a year in my Co-
Directorship, is thank you. I
am most grateful to my fellow
Co-Directors, Jesse and Toby.
I couldn’t have asked for bet-
ter people to work with. I also
have to give special thanks to
all of the employees because I
learned the most from you.
CCAT can provide some
hard-learned lessons to any-
one who wishes to be a Co-Di-
rector, but as difficult as it can
be at times, I would not trade
my experience for anything. I
have met so many wonderful
people at CCAT this past year
and I am all the more inspired
by the potential that exists in
all of us to make a difference.
I love all of you dearly and
wish you the best of luck.
Cheers.
- Kate Dondero -
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 Garden
Update
By Jess Huyghebaert and Jeremiah Bright
Greetings from the CCAT ed from this sum-
gardens! We’ve seen lots of mer’s growth,
progress since last semester, along with lots of
with some summer time work peppers and cab-
and many hands joining in this bage. Right now
semester to make the CCAT gar- there’s kale, let-
dens and grounds look beau- tuce, radishes,
tiful. The CCAT Organic Gar- beets, turnips,
dening class was brought back leeks, bok choi
to the hands-on level with a and onions grow-
plethora of other projects go- ing, not to men-
ing on. We’ve whipped the an- tion the baby
nual vegetable beds into shape, garlic sprouts
CCAT Gardener Jeremiah Bright
planted some winter and cover popping out of poses with his hard work.
crops, and have been working the mulch! We’re
to restore and maintain the food even able to utilize the new kiwis have put on a great deal
forest. We even got in a field trip rain water catchment system of growth in the last couple of
or two to Eddie Tanner’s Deep installed last semester to water months and are being retrained
Seeded Community Farm and our beds. to cover the arbor, the passion-
Shail Pec-Crouse’s Tule Fog The rest of the yard is coming flowers by the yurt are taking
Farm! back under control after a sum- over and looking for new homes,
Tons of onions were harvest- mer of crazy weed growth. Our the huckleberries are growing
well with end-use water from
the grey water marsh, and the
artichokes are doing great af-
ter their most recent transplant
in anticipation of the tool shed
construction! With a little more
manure, cardboard and com-
post, we will build up soil in the
front yard and the food forest in
hopes for great growth in the fu-
ture. It’s been a beautiful waltz
coordinating with all the other
exciting developments happen-
ing on CCAT’s physical site, and
finding settling space for plants,
projects and seeds. With cover
crop seeded in the ground and
plants coming back to life, we’re
ready for the rain of winter and
the growth to come!
A display of a CCAT garden.
Photos by Jess Huyghebaert
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 At Work Near and Far
Waterpower systems in Bhutan and Northern California lighten impact
By Hannah Hourie
From native reservations in
Northern California to rural villages
in the mountains of Bhutan, micro-
hydro-electric systems are lighting
homes. These systems make it pos-
sible to reduce impact on the eco-
logical processes in which we are
involved.
Microhydro refers to “small”
waterpower projects. Unlike con-
ventional hydropower, which may
dam the flow of a river, microhydro
diverts only a portion of the water
flow. The diverted water is chan-
neled down an incline, where it
spins in a turbine and is converted
into an electrical current, before be-
ing returned to the stream. The en-
ergy a system can produce is depen-
dent upon the flow rate, or amount
of water over a given amount of
time, and the head, which is the
vertical distance traveled from start
to finish. This form of electrical gen-
eration alters the natural flow of a
waterway very little, generally caus-
ing no noticeable change in water
temperature, and maintaining wa-
ter levels that can support wildlife
and fauna even in the dry season.
Projects vary in size. Master’s
student at Humboldt State Univer-
sity, Chhimi Dorji, acted as proj-
ect manager of a 1.5 million dollar
project in his home country of Bhu-
tan. The project supplied electric
power to a village that previously
had very limited access to electric-
ity. The addition of elctricity is hav-
ing significant social impacts on the
community, such as an increase in
educational opportunities. Before
the project, students could not work
during the dark hours of the day.
Another result has been an increase
in hours spent watching television.
Closer to home, on the Yurok
reservation, I participated in the
installation of a much smaller mi-
crohydro project. Working within
a small boulder laden streambed,
a small group of volunteers rolled
up their pant legs to install a single-
family 1000 watt system, made from
PVC pipes.
In a time of global climate
change, there is no shortage of rea-
sons to shift away from a dependen-
cy on fossil fuels. It is important to
generate power closer to the loca-
tion of consumption. By decentral-
izing power, we not only reduce the
inefficiencies of transferring power
over a long distance, but we gain
control over our energy sources.

CCAT Greenhouse Gala

By Kate Dondero
This semester CCAT received a
wonderful gift in the form of a REC
220 Leisure Programming Group
Project. Their class project was to
design a fundraising event for an
organization, and one particular
group of students chose to do their
project for CCAT.
The goal of groups’ project
was to raise money to help with
the costs of reconstructing CCAT’s
greenhouse. The former green-
house on CCAT’s former grounds
functioned as a heat source for the
house, an educational and learning
space, a place to grow plant starts
in the spring, and way to extend the
growing season well into the winter
to provide food for the household.
The REC 220 class recognized
CCAT’s desire to rebuild a green-
house and planned an event called
the Greenhouse Gala
that fell in line with
CCAT’s mission of pro-
viding students with
hands-on learning ex-
periences. All of the food
provided was donated by
local businesses and lo-
cal organic farmers. The
class also took special
care to provide reusable
dishware, making sure Greenhouse Gala co-organizer Megan and CCAT
that it was a zero waste co-director Jesse stop to pose during the Gala.
event! All of the prizes
for the drawing and silent auction nifer, Luke, Tim and Megan for all
were donated by local businesses or your hard work and dedication. A
made by local artists. The event was special thank you to the REC 220
filled with great food, prizes, music Professor, Paul Marsh, Ph.D. for
and friends. By the end of the night, teaching such a great class.
the Gala had raised over $1000 dol-
lars for CCAT’s new greenhouse.
Thank you Amanda, Dana, Jen-
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 A Piece of the Past
Former Co-Directors check in with an update
Since I co-directed in 1999 with
Stacy, Michelle, Brook and April, I
went on to get my teaching creden-
tials in high school Science and Eng-
lish. I taught in a private junior high
for a year, and started consulting for
local developer Danco on how to in-
corporate a CSA farm into a housing
development. I was then hired by
that Danco a year later and have been
working since then on green build-
ing, clean-up of brownfields, and af-
fordable housing. In about a year and
a half, I hope to have built the first
zero energy apartment complex in

Sean Armstrong the United States—it’s designed, ap-

proved and partially funded. So close
I can almost smell the PV panels.

Since finishing my term as co-

director and graduating from HSU,
I’ve kept myself busy in a variety of
ways!  First, I moved back to Oakland
where I earned my multiple subjects
teaching credential at East Bay Con-
servation Corps K-5 Charter School
through HSU’s distance education pro-
gram, where I was a full-time student
as well as a full-time Teacher Intern.  I
thought I was busy as a Co-Director,
but what an intense year!  Then, with
my meager earnings from my teach-
ing stint, I bought a 27’ sail boat and,
learning as I went, sailed down the
coast of CA with a friend, arriving in
Mexico in time for Christmas and New
Years.  After that, I flew to Costa Rica,
where I traveled for five months study-
ing Spanish and enjoying the beauti-
Glenn Howe
ful natural wonders of Costa Rica and
neighboring Panama.   Broke, I came have moved on to become the Camp from renewable resources and leave a
back to CA, where I picked up my boat Director of one of their middle school lighter footprint on our planet. Next,
and sailed back to Oakland. I got a job camps, Galileo Summer Quest. I’m I’m thinking of working on a historic
teaching at a summer camp called Gal- currently writing a curriculum for next sailing ship in SF Maritime National
ileo-Learning that focuses on Art, Sci- year’s camp season, including a couple Historic Park, where I’ll take kids on an
ence, and the Outdoors.  I have since of units on Green Design, where we overnight adventure, in character as a
continued working with them, and teach campers how to harness energy sailor from the 1800’s.  Yee-Haw!
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 In the years since being a co-
director (2004-2005) and graduating
from HSU (2006) my path has been
full of adventures, challenges, with
stories and insights awaiting the next
rendezvous around the fire. From the
school of life, I am continuing to build
on a strong foundation supported by
my experiences with CCAT and HSU,
gleaning lessons and sharpening my
awareness of the mechanisms and
strategies that make or break posi-
tive intentions. I am currently doing
business as Terrasophia, an ecologi-
cal design consulting and educa-
tion firm based within the Laguni-
tas Creek Watershed of West Marin
County. Applying the principles of
ecological design and permaculture
to how I operate my business, I am
focusing my efforts on strengthening
the connection between people and
place. This involves infrastructure
development and capacity building
Systems Analysis Update
By Myles Danforth
CCAT has historically and
still is a demonstration house for
renewable and appropriate tech-
nologies. Many of the CCAT house
systems such as the Photovoltaic
Solar Array and the Solar Thermal
System have been updated and
reinstalled in the house at its new
location. Now that all of the major
modifications to the systems are
complete, it is time to get back on
our systems analysis! With the
assistance of students in the ENGR
308 Technology and the Environ-
ment class, CCAT is getting back
on track with monitoring our en-
ergy production and consumption.
By the end of this year, CCAT will
have generated data from the solar
PV system in its new location to
properly calculate the amount of
energy CCAT generates, uses, and
feeds into the grid. The data will
be available for all to view down-
Jeff Adams
in a regenerative and empowering ing my occasional visits to Arcata.
way that fosters just, equitable, and Feel free to drop me a line at jeffrey@
effective local economies. I continue terrasophia.com.
to enjoy observing the evolution of
the CCAT grounds and program dur-
stairs at CCAT and online from the share our knowledge, providing
CCAT webpage and Appropedia.org. proof that these technologies,
Monitoring of the solar ther- when implemented properly, can
mal system is underway, as well reduce our impact on the earth.
as our gas and water use. By the
new year, CCAT will also have an
upgraded greywater marsh and
an improved method in place for
keeping our marsh operating at
optimal efficiency.
In the past few years, CCAT
has gone through many changes
and we have focused our efforts on
establishing its grounds and ap-
propriate technologies. It appears
at times that we may have gotten
ahead of ourselves with future
progress. But we have not forgot-
ten the importance of CCAT as an
inspiration house for the world to
use as an example of renewable
and appropriate technologies. It
is through analysis of our current
and future systems that we can
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 Vermicomposting
CCAT Hosts Workshop
By Jesse Shrader
Much of the waste that goes into with more nutrients with the use of
landfills nowadays is waste that can worms. 
be composted.  We all know that Vermicomposting, or compost-
this just shouldn’t be.  Traditional ing with worms, is a fun, efficient,
composting is an excellent way to and even profitable way to turn
reuse some of our wastes and can be kitchen waste and office waste into
done even faster, with less smell, and soil.  Here’s how you can do it:
CCAT Vermicomposting Workshop
attendees search for worms.

Supplies:
2 Stackable Large Containers (old 5 gallon buckets work great!)
Something to poke/drill holes in the container
Red Wiggler Worms
Soft food from your kitchen (no citrus, meat, or dairy!)
Shredded/Torn Paper
A few cups of dirt in which to start your worms
Procedure:
Start making holes in the sides and bottom of your first
container about 1/8” wide.  One hole every square inch is
plenty. Place the bucket with holes on top of the other. Jesse Shrader displays the worms used
for the Vermicomposting Workshop.
Place some dry shredded paper in the bottom bucket (this
will help absorb any excess water).
Mix together your worms, your dirt, a tiny bit of soft food, and some moistened shredded paper in the top
bucket.  Make sure all of your food is covered to keep flies away.  Also, avoid citrus and citrus peels; the acid
interferes with the worms’ digestion.
Now, leave it alone.  Worms can survive for more than a month with no food, but only a few days if there’s too
much food.  Too much food will make your worm bin heat up and smell bad, which will kill the worms.  If you
put too much food in, immediately add more moistened, shredded paper to slow down the decomposition
and help keep the temperature acceptable.
Keep your worm bin moist; just wet enough so that if you squeeze the dirt with all the might in your hands,
you’ll produce just a single drop.  If it gets too moist (careful, this is easy to do and hard to fix) add dry shred-
ded paper, mix the pile, and keep the bin ventilated.

Photos by Jesse Shrader and Matthew Freeman

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 CCAT’s “Raydient” New Solar Hot Water System
By Toby Haskett
This summer, CCAT increased its
solar exposure by tapping the sun’s
rays not just for electricity, but for hot
water as well. In early July, solar con-
tractor Ben Scurfield and I installed
the solar thermal component of
CCAT’s hot water heating system. The
project was funded by a HEIF (Hum-
boldt State Energy Independence
Fund) grant that was co-authored by
Former CCAT Co-Director Jeff Stue-
ben, and CCAT Grant Writer Laura
Hughes in fall 2008. The proposal
garnered approximately $15,775, to
install two solar collectors, monitor-
ing equipment, and an interpretive
display.
CCAT’s solar thermal system is a
closed loop system that utilizes two
Schüco flat plate collectors mounted
flush to the angle of the roof. The
collectors tie into a Phoenix brand
natural gas fired hot water heater
through a built in heat exchanger spe-
cifically designed for solar thermal.
A propylene glycol solution (non
toxic antifreeze) is used as the heat
exchange medium that is pumped up
through the collectors and back to the
Phoenix. “Closed loop” means that
the propylene glycol remains in the
pipes that connect the panels to the
heat exchanger, and does not “drain
back” into a separate tank or mix with
the water in the Phoenix. Inspections
of the propylene glycol are recom-
mended every few years, and it will
eventually need to be replaced as it
breaks down and loses effectiveness
over time. The two solar collectors
were sized to provide 50% of CCAT’s
water heating capacity, and future
monitoring will help to quantify this
estimate. I can say for certain that all
the co-directors now come out of the
shower 50% more radiant!
The installation went smoothly,
especially after we got the two heavy
panels mounted on the roof. The
German engineered solar collec-
tors impressed me. They came with
detachable handles that connected classes. CCAT has also teamed up
via tracks on the panels’ frames, with Jennifer Tarlton’s NRPI Inter-
which made carrying them easier. pretation Practicum class to create a
The mounting system is equally well sign that describes the system to the
designed in my opinion. Aluminum general public. This project has come
“S-5” clamps slip over the standing to fruition due to the collective effort
seams on the metal roof and tighten of HSU students, faculty, and com-
down with rounded nose set screws. munity members, and will provide
The screws compress the roof mate- many educational opportunities for
rial against the opposite wall of the years to come.
clamp but do not penetrate it. This
system works to reduce the number
of roof penetrations, thus reducing
potential leaks!
The plumbing was fun. There is
something satisfying about nicely sol-
dered pipe fittings, which Ben taught
me how to do. Soldering in tight plac-
es is challenging, but we managed not
to burn the house down! All the pipes
were well insulated with foam insula-
tion to reduce heat loss. We installed
a few extra valves to facilitate installa-
tion of additional flow meters or other
monitoring devices.
Monitoring equipment for the
hot water system is currently being
installed. Engineering Professor Arne James Robinson, Toby Haskett, Ben
Scurfield and former CCAT Gardener Gary
Jacobsen will be using data from the Strokos prep the panel for its installation.
system for analysis in a few of his
James Robinson, Toby Haskett, and Ben Scurf-
ield move the panel to its desired location.
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 Do-It-Yourself Projects
By Garrett Duffy
Do your pants have holes in
them because you are too cheap to
buy new ones? It is relatively easy
to patch those pants that are good
aside from the hole in the knee. I
consider it a fashion statement
too. All you will need is some scrap
denim, some thread, a needle, four
pins, a ruler, scissors and an iron.
Any readers that actually know
how to sew know that my method is
crude, but I promise it works.
First, I make a patch whose
edges will not fray and then sew it
on the pants. Measure the width
and length of the hole in the pants
and add about 3/4 of an inch to
those measurements. That will
be the dimension of the square of
scrap denim you will need. For ex-
ample if you have a 1 inch by 1 1/2
inch hole you will need a 1 ¾ inch
by 2 ¼ inch square patch. I find
that the scraps from below the knee
of junk pants are in the best shape.
Now for the fun part. Heat up your
iron on a high setting. Fold over
one side of the square so the inside
touches light colored inside. Fold
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about 3/8” and iron it so it stays
folded. Keep the iron moving to
avoid burning. Now do the same
on an adjacent side and so on until
all four sides are ironed under. Now
you have a patch.
Position the patch over the hole
appropriately and pin it in place on
each side by going down through
the folded part, through the pants
and then back up through the pants
and patch. The pins will have to be
moved and removed as the patch is
sewn on. To make it more acces-
sible to sew, cuff up the pant leg
all the way up to the patching area.
Now it is just a matter of sewing it in
place. I use a hemming stitch, but
the stitch style is up to you. Hon-
estly, almost any thoughtfully done
sewing job with fairly equal ten-
sion on each stitch do fine. One tip
I’ll give about sewing is to not get
impatient and make ½ inch long
stitches. Space them about an 1/8
of an inch apart.
Now save your pants from the
landfill and patch them up!
Garrett displays the needlework
required in patching old pants.
By Nick Nelson
Before you chuck that container back
in the recycling, think about some ways you
might reuse it. Here’s an easy way to make
your own custom travel mug to hold that
hot drink addiction of choice! You’ll avoid
using single-use paper cups, save money
and save materials of a manufactured re-
usable plastic mug, and have a sweet-look-
ing receptacle for your fluids to boot.
1. Start with a peanut butter jar (or any jar
with a good water-tight lid).
2. Eat the peanut butter (or whatever your
jar might contain).
3. Wash it out and remove the label.
4. Find a piece of material you don’t need
for anything else. It could be anything! I like
vinyl because I have a lot of it left over from
reupholstering my Volvo. Leather works.
Old jeans work. Towels and carpets and
sweaters work. You might want to add a
layer of thin foam under your cloth to bet-
ter insulate your mug, you can often find
this unnecessarily included in the packag-
ing of many products. Look around and be
creative.
5. Cut out a rectangle that is as tall as your
jar and a little bit longer than the circumfer-
ence. If you’re using a material that’s likely
to fray you might want to cut your rectangle
a little larger so you can fold it over to the
right size and sew it.
6. Now’s the time to decorate your coozy
before we make it into a circle. Go nuts.
Sew old patches on, draw a sea turtle, write
inspiring quotes or lame jokes. In fact, the
more lame jokes you put on your coozy,
the better the insulative properties of your
mug.
7. Now to get the fit perfectly snug around
your jar, staple your cloth into a circle
where you think it will go on tight around
your jar and not slip off. Try it on your jar.
If it’s not quite right, staples are a lot easier
to redo than stitches. Play with it until you
get it right, and when your ready to stitch it
up your staples will hold it right where you
want it.
8. Enjoy your creation!
 Better Than Your Homemade Jam
Grandma’s Apple Pie
By Kate Dondero
Pastry for Double Crust Pie
2 Cups all-purpose Flour
½ tsp. Salt
2/3 cup Butter (softened)
6 to 7 Tbsp. cold water
Mix together flour and salt. Cut in butter until dough is the size of small
peas. Mix in water until the dough no longer easily crumbles. Divide
dough in half and roll into a ball. On a lightly floured sheet of waxed
paper, flatten one ball of dough with hands. With a floured rolling pin,
roll dough from center to edges, forming a circle about 12 inches in di-
ameter. Pick up waxed paper and flip it over a pie pan. Center dough in
the pan. There should be about a ¼ inch overhang of dough on the side
of the pan. With a fork, poke holes in the bottom crust.
Add filling almost to the brim of pie pan. Add one or two pats of butter
to the filling.
Roll out the second ball of dough in the same way. Lay on top of the
filling. Fold the top pastry under the bottom pastry and crimp edges
together. Cut your pattern in the top with a sharp knife.
Apple Filling
6 or 7 medium sized pie apples peeled and sliced
¼ cup brown sugar (or more depending on your taste)
Nutmeg and Cinnamon to taste
1 Tbsp flour to thicken
Stir all ingredients over heat until combined. Apples do not need to be
cooked before baking.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake pie for one hour. Place a cookie sheet
on one of the lower racks in case the filling bubbles over. Let cool for
10mins and serve with vanilla ice cream.
Remember to have fun! Play with variations and always know that qual-
ity ingredients and a lot of practice will make a wonderful pie. Happy
baking!
Kate explains the process of her apple
pie during CCAT’s Apple Pie Workshop.
By Kaitlin Schilling
Necessary Tools: Large Pot, Spoons, Ladel,
Jar Grabber, Jar Funnel, Canning Jars,
Sugar, Water, Lemon, Juice, Pectin, Fruit
(your choice of berries), Tongs
Jars
Step 1---- Wash jars in dish washer, use
the sterilizing cycle if possible, and expect
to use about 10 jars
Step 2---- Keep jars warm until their
needed in step 7 below
Step 3---- Bring two pots of water to a boil,
one to boil the lids, the other to seal the
jam jars in step seven below
****NOTE: make sure to use tongs for grab-
bing the jars and lids out of the boiling water!
Jam
Step 1----- Wash ten cups of berries in cold
water, make to get all stems and leaves off
your berries
Step 2----- Smash berries, get them to the
consisancy that you would like. Depend-
ing on whether you like incredibly smooth
jam or some with more texture. To mash
the berries you can use a potatoe masher
or food processer, whichever you have
available.
Step 3----- Mix together pectin packages
and one fourth cup sugar. You should use
a whole box of pectin for this recipe. Set
aside. ****NOTE: if you are deciding to use
fruit juice as a sweetener instead of sugar,
set the pectin aside for the time being.
Step 4---- Put berries into a large pot, mix
in 1/4 cup of lemon juice, 1/2 cup of water
and pectin
Step 5---- Bring mixture to a boil, add 4
3/4 cups sugar or 3 cups fruit juice (apple
or grape work the best)
Step 6---- Bring the mixture back to a boil.
Step 7---- Pour mixture into already warm
jars to about 1/4inch from the top. Tightly
screw on lids ,then, using tongs, place the
Jar into the seperate pot of boiling water
for 5 minutes
Step 8---- Remove jar from water and let
cool at room temperature (this usually
takes a while)
Step 9---- Once cooled check if the jars
sealed correctly, to do this push down on
the center of the lid. If it makes popping
noise the jars did not seal correctly and
therefore will spoil faster.
Step 10--- ENJOY!
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 CCAT Spring 2010 Courses
Not long ago, CCAT was small, hidden in a corner of campus. As CCAT grew, we started offering building
technology classes and spreading knowledge about appropriate technology and sustainable living. During
our transition period in the Jenkins house, we started to offer many more lecture and hands-on classes.
Now on a permanent site, there is much to design and build! Next semester, we will bring back the CCAT
tradition of small hands-on internships focusing on CCAT technologies, grounds, and gardens. Student
interns will work closely with CCAT Co-Directors and employees to implement exciting projects at CCAT.

ENG 280 Lost Arts of the Living (1) ENVS 480 Herbalism (1)
An eight-week series of experiential and exploratory workshops This internship will study the use of herbs as
covering skills, crafts, and natural patterns that are no longer medicine and explore the science of culti-
commonly practiced. Potential topics include shelter & fire build- vating, drying and using herbs. Interns will
ing, natural paints, canning, baking, and more. Mon. 11-1 p.m. apply knowledge while exploring CCAT’s
herb gardens. Propagating, identifying, and
ENG 280 Green Design (1) harvesting herbs on a seasonal basis will be
This eight week introductory course will cover the fundamentals covered. Tues. 2-4 p.m.
of sustainable systems design through reading and discussion of
literature, focus projects, and surveys of technologies and sys- ENVS 480 Organic Gardening (1)
tems. Wed. 2-4 p.m. This internship will involve experiential learn-
ing of the science of small scale food produc-
ENG 280 Sustainable Technologies Seminar (1) tion without the use of chemicals. Facilitated
This introductory eight-week field site series will feature tours of by CCAT gardeners, interns will research,
a range of technologies and their applications in the com- study, work with soil preparation, plant
munity. Potential topics include green building, community agri- propagation, garden planning, composting,
culture, gray water systems, alternative energy, biodiesel as a fuel, crop rotations, and more. Wed. 3-5 p.m.
woodworking, and more. Thurs. 2-4 p.m. *All classes begin in the 8th week of the semester

Campus Center for Appropriate Technology Nonprofit Org.

1 Harpst St., Arcata, CA 95521 US Postage Paid
(707) 826-3551
Permit No. 78
http://www.humboldt.edu/~ccat
Arcata, CA 95521

Thank you so much for supporting CCAT. If you’d like to support us further with a
donation, here’s your chance! We’re raising funds to build a beautiful greenhouse
at the new CCAT site. To help, please include this slip with your donation of:
__ $10 __ $20 Please send your donation to:
Campus Center for
__ $50 __ $100 Appropriate Technology
1 Harpst Street
_____ Other Arcata, CA 95521

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