Saturday Tweets: Cooking in Clay, Cuteness and Pickles

July 22, 2017

...ps://t.co/Sof6tD8uvH — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 20, 2017 Small Batch Bread and Butter Pickles https://t.co/JekNG6H15g — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 22, 2017 What is “cute”? | Garden Rant https://t.co/Y84XRMZET4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 22, 2017 Harvesting Electronic Components https://t.co/cP5r86jl03 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 22, 2017 Check out this podcast with my partner, Claudia West with Margaret Roach https://t.co/UiHB...

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Getting Ourselves Back to the Garden

Mr. Homegrown

June 26, 2018

Design, Gardening

...nto the fringes of the small parking lot. A large adobe oven was added and bread and pizza baking events and classes take place on the second Saturday of the month. Recently, part of the front lawn became a community playground. Many church grounds sit idle during the week. Not Holy Nativity. As Rev. Rood put it to me once, “This is a community center that just happens to have a church attached to it.” While the word “community” gets overused in t...

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094 The American Woman’s Home

Mr. Homegrown

October 26, 2016

Domesticus, Podcasts

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...We discuss many of Catherine’s specific recommendations including: butter, bread, terrariums, indoor plants, earth closets and art (she suggests everyone own a print of Eastman Johnson’s “Barefoot Boy” and Bierstadt’s “Sunset in the Yosemite Valley“). You can read the full text of An American Woman’s Home online here. If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com....

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5 Very Hip Mason Jar Hacks

Mr. Homegrown

September 28, 2015

Domesticus

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...Institute of Domestic Technology El Jefe Joseph Shuldiner (full disclosure: I teach bread classes at the IDT) wrote a very cool column for the Los Angeles Times describing 5 mason jar hacks: an adult sippy cup, soap dispenser, tea infuser, twine dispenser and a pour-spout pantry container. No need to launch yet another Mason jar Kickstarter as these are hacks you can do yourself....

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Solar recipe review: Moroccan Chickpea Tagine (Works on the stovetop, too)

Mrs. Homegrown

August 12, 2016

Food, Recipes, Solar Oven Summer

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...ng instructions found on some random prepper type site. Inedible solar cornbread. I shudder in remembrance. Meanwhile, even if I haven’t loved every recipe I’ve tried at the Solavore site, none I’ve tried are technical failures. The is a link to their Moraccan Chickpea Tagine. I’m just sending you there for the recipe because I don’t have any significant changes to make, so no excuse for copying it here. It is simply onion, carrot, garlic and can...

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