032 Grist and Toll, an Urban Flour Mill

January 7, 2015

In episode 32 of the Root Simple Podcast I talk with Nan Kohler, owner and miller at Grist & Toll, a mill in Pasadena, California–and the first mill to operate in the L.A. area in the last one hundred years. We discuss varieties of wheat, the health benefits of whole grains, how to work with them and why flavor is important. Kelly is not on this episode but will return to the podcast next week. Links Ruth Reichl visits baker Richard Bertinet in E...

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Urban Beekeeping Workshop at the Natural History Museum

Mr. Homegrown

May 11, 2014

Events

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Vegetable Gardening for the Lazy

Mr. Homegrown

May 28, 2008

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...is a plant that allows more time to get the perfect vermouth/gin ratio for those late afternoon cocktail sessions on the urban homestead....

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Yucca!

Mr. Homegrown

November 14, 2006

Foraging

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...rs, fruit and seed pods are also edible and Nyerges’ article provides some cooking tips. As part of a edible/useful landscaping scheme yucca plants are attractive and with their sharp points can provide a kind of security barrier against marauding hooligans. Speaking of hooligans (and bad transitions), we forgot to thank the folks at SoapboxLA for cooking up a batch of rusks that kept us all going during our Bike Scout and edible food huntin’ jour...

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A ceramic oil lamp

Mrs. Homegrown

March 4, 2015

Domesticus

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...much, I made a little seashell oil lamp the very first project in our book Making It. As a child of the electric age it continuously amazes me that I can make light so easily with cooking oil. Also, in reproducing these lights, I feel a connection to history. I’ve no doubt that my ancestors gathered around fish oil lamps in the north and olive oil lamps in the south. To add to their charms, they aren’t based on petroleum–as paraffin tea candles ar...

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