008 Grind Your Own Flour With Erin Alderson

July 16, 2014

Bread, Fermentation, Food, Podcasts, Wheat

...ling your own flours at home. Erin is the author of The Homemade Flour Cookbook and blogs at naturallyella.com. In our conversation Erin mentions that she uses WonderMill Grain Mill . We also discussed where to get unique grains. Erin mentions a few sources in her book: Bob’s Red Mill Arrowhead Mills Nuts Online Jovial Foods (source for Einkorn) Lundberg Family Farms I’ll add that if you’re in the Los Angeles area you can buy flour and grain at Gr...

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010 Erica Strauss of Northwest Edible Life

Mr. Homegrown

July 30, 2014

Animals, Chickens, Food, Food Preservation, Gardening, Podcasts

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...Healthy Eater Meal planning for families Time management on the homestead Getting up early to get things done Irresponsible chicken keeping Livestock vs. pets Ducks vs. chickens Slugs and snails Lining a duck pond with clumping cat litter Duck housing Selecting and preserving avocados Erica’s book project You can also find Erica on Facebook. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to...

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Apartment Parking Lot Gardening in East Hollywood

Mr. Homegrown

July 31, 2014

Gardening

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...needed to come up with a solution . So based on the “Square Foot Gardening Book by Mel Bartholomew I built two 5 ft. x 1 ft. square foot garden boxes from inexpensive ($ 2.15) 1 x 6 x 6 ft. cedar fence boards bought from Home Depot. I waterproofed them by sealing the insides with with pure tung oil from Jill’s paint in Atwater. Each planter gives me 5, 12 x 12 inch sq. ft. spaces for growing. These boxes take up a small amount of space and fit eas...

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011 Cleaning, Long Crowing Roosters and Water Storage

Mr. Homegrown

August 6, 2014

Animals, Chickens, Domesticus, Podcasts, Preparedness

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...references the importance of processing your inbox, an idea learned from a book Getting Things Done by David Allen. Long Crowing Roosters The Wikipedia article on long crowing roosters. A youtube playlist of long crowing roosters. Musical break “Banty Rooster Blues” by Charley Patton. Listener Question: Water Storage for Emergencies A correction to the podcast–the Food Safety Advisor is not free to download, but the information on water storage th...

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The Arroyo Co-op in Pasadena

Mr. Homegrown

September 7, 2014

Food

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Back in the 1970s the phone book for Los Angeles had dozens of food co-ops. Until just recently that number had dwindled to one (in Santa Monica), in a region of some 13 million people. Which is why I’m happy to help get the word out about the new Arroyo Co-op. If you’re interested in joining here’s the press release I was sent: When you shop at your local supermarket, do you feel like you really belong there? Do you wish you had an alternative –...

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