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There Will Be Kraut Part II–Full Day Hands-On Fermentation Workshop at the Greystone Mansion

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Events
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...Lecture + Full-Day Workshop for only $200 ! Erik Knutzen: Co-author of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World, co-founder of the Los Angeles Bead Bakers collective. Hae Jung Cho: After recovering from a career in nonprofit management, Hae Jung has been working in the food industry since 2003 in high-end restaurants, catering and retail environments. Driven by a passion for foods that require time and patience,...

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Bar Codes on Veggies

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Thoughtstylings
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...rket, consumers use camera equipped cell phones to scan the QR code on the label. The code links to a mobile website detailing origin, soil composition, organic fertilizer content percentage (as opposed to chemical), use of pesticides and herbicides and even the name of the farm it was grown on. Consumers can also access the same information over the Ibaraki Agricultural Produce Net website by inputting a numbered code on each label.” Though we’re...

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Urban Farm Magazine

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Events, Resources, Urban Farming
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...elly Yrarrazaval of Orange County. All of these fine folks have repurposed urban and suburban spaces to grow impressive amounts of food, a common sense trend popular enough to have spawned this new magazine. Editor Karen Keb Acevedo says, “Urban Farm is here to shed a little light on the things we can all do to change our lifestyles, in ways we think are monumental as a whole, yet at the same time, barely noticeable on their own.” The first issue...

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Saturday Tweets: Animals Sounds, White Bread and LA’s Worst Politician

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...treetfilms @MitchOFarrell — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 6, 2015 White bread, pasta and an increased risk of depression http://t.co/3yagzOWy2z — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 6, 2015 Chicken receiving 3D-printed prosthetic leg via @BoingBoing http://t.co/4LkhCsHZwe — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 3, 2015 The Skip Garden a moveable urban veggie patch built with 90% reclaimed materials http://t.co/LnpEmIPMIB — Root Simple (@rootsimple) Aug...

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Virtuosic Bread Shaping

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Bread, Food
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...ad being shaped here is called Markook, In Arabic, مرقوق، شراك. It’s a flatbread found throughout the Middle East (an Armenian friend who grew up in Lebanon told us about it). A casual Youtube search will reveal many different Markook shaping techniques. Here’s a pillow free version making the rounds on Facebook: Post by Akhilesh Sharma. Back to learning a difficult skill. In the case of shaping dough it’s often best to practice with a sacrificial...

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