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The Root Simple 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

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Thoughtstylings
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...thought I’d offer some suggested gifts, mostly obtainable online, for the urban homesteady types in your life. Most of the links are to Amazon, and we get a small cut of the proceeds, which helps keep our webmaster in kibble. But First . . . Charity Of course, rather than buying unneeded crap that will only clutter our already messy houses, we could agree to give to a charity instead. This season, due to our national “orange swan” event, Kelly is...

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Saturday Tweets: Waffles, Shipwrecks and Soil Erosion

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Saturday Linkages
Make These Waffles! new #cookingvideo https://t.co/20J4XDFVZ5 — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) January 20, 2017 A sailboat builders story of being shipwrecked + what he learned https://t.co/oZ2BS7XPeX — Green Roof Growers (@GreenRoofGrower) January 19, 2017 When the ground beings to thaw for spring is when much soil erosion occurs on unprotected ground. Here's what you… https://t.co/9AaBxSUUjG — Tenth Acre Farm (@tenthacrefarm) January 19, 2017...

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Problems Part I

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Animals, Chickens
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The road to urban homesteading ain’t smooth and involves more than a few potholes along the way. Some of those potholes will swallow a bike tire while others are big enough for a Hummer. But with persistence it becomes easier to deal with the occasional bump, lessons can be learned and future mistakes avoided. With the popularity of our earlier blunders post, I’d like to begin regularly sharing problems as they develop. Here’s problem #1 for this...

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100 Eric Rochow of Garden Fork on Maple Syrup, Welding and Cast Iron

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Food, Podcasts
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...ith Garden Fork impresario Eric Rochow about his adventures in maple syrup making, learning how to weld and the controversial topic of maintaining cast iron. During the show we touch on a lot of things including: Eric’s file cabinet evaporator Eric’s evaporator upgrades Eric’s flux core welding video The Instructables welding class Valpak Harbor Freight coupons Harbor Freight flux core welder Eric’s flux core welding playlist LA’s Molten Metal Wor...

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