052 Listener Feedback and So Much More

July 8, 2015

...tis problem. During the podcast we mention: The Idler and Tom Hodgkinson’s book How to Be Idle: A Loafer’s Manifesto The band Calexico (you can download a free song and see a concert on their website). Hencam.com Architectural Graphics Standards Barefoot Ken Bob If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on...

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On Homesteading Burnout and the Need to Focus

Mr. Homegrown

August 3, 2015

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...nces we often said that, while we do a lot of projects as research for our books, readers should not try to do everything. Our message has always been that this movement is not an “all of the above” proposition; you don’t have to raise chickens, brew beer, sew, keep bees, make pickles etc.; you can go with your strengths and make friends with people who do what you’re not good at. But do I follow my own advice? Not so much. I’ve been thinking late...

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Admitting Gardening Mistakes

Mr. Homegrown

August 17, 2015

Garden Design, Gardening

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...tractive landscape plan. As Hermann von Pückler-Muskau advises in his 1834 book Hints on Landscape Gardening, I know of nothing more pathetic than when a failed detail is allowed to remain as an eyesore in a completed project, rather than being removed and replaced by a better idea, simply because it has already cost such and such in the first place, and changing it might cost again as much. . . Once changes have been found advisable, though, it i...

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The Best Way to Bake Pizza in a Home Oven

Mr. Homegrown

August 27, 2015

Food

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...in those plans. I remembered that Josey Baker had some instructions in his book Josey Baker Bread on how to make pizza in a home oven, so I decided to give it a try. Baker credits this home oven technique to a San Francisco street pizza maverick who goes by the name PizzaHacker. I’m happy to report that it works so well that I wonder why I should bother to spend three hours tending a fire to prep the outdoor oven. Is pizza out of a wood fired oven...

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066 Saving Seeds and Seed Libraries with David King

Mr. Homegrown

October 21, 2015

Gardening, Podcasts, Seeds

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...ions a few resources including the Organic Seed Alliance and Carol Deppe’s book Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties. David blogs at LA Garden Blog and also can be found at The Learning Garden. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. A downloadable versi...

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