Saturday Tweets: Food, Simple Living and Bikes

November 8, 2014

...imple) November 5, 2014 Let him that would move the world first move himself. -Socrates — Ancient Wisdoms (@AncientWisdomss) November 4, 2014 Cool blog and pics of a bread class I did with @RLMProvisions http://t.co/ZB9fx8p2vP — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 3, 2014...

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015 Worm Composting and Skunks

Mr. Homegrown

September 3, 2014

Bread, Composting, Food, Gardening, Pests, Podcasts, Vermiculture

...ing adventures. What are we reading Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof. Bread: A Global History By William Rubel. Kelly mentions Werner Herzog’s Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. 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. Additional music by Rho. A do...

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Wild Food Lab: Foraging Taken to the Next Level

Mr. Homegrown

August 28, 2014

Food, Foraging

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...hniques for common wild foods. I think my favorite recipe is also the simplest: how to prepare the ubiquitous broadleaf plantain (Plantago major). Pascal gave me a couple of ideas for ways to enhance my bread experiments with seeds and wild herbs which I’m looking forward to trying. Do you have a favorite wild food? Tell us where you live and what you like to gather and work with....

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Picture Sunday: flawed but beautiful

Mrs. Homegrown

August 3, 2014

Picture Sundays

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...Erik is working on a new top secret bread recipe. It’s not perfect yet, but I get to eat the rejects. Life is good....

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A Year After the Age of Limits: Mr. Homegrown’s Take

Mr. Homegrown

May 7, 2014

Age of Limits

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...year and speak. I wrote back and said I’d do it but never heard back. Perhaps my email ended up in a spam box. I’m glad that I’m not going. I’ve got bread to bake, talks to give and a much delayed vegetable garden to plant....

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