076 Keeping Your Poultry Healthy with Dr. Maurice Pitesky

February 17, 2016

...UC Davis poultry resource website, a backyard poultry census that you can take part in, and the UC Davis pastured poultry farm research project. We also discuss some simple measures you can take to keep your poultry free of disease as well as how to safely cook eggs and meat. 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 cansubscribe to our podcast in the iTune...

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Our Rocket Stove

Mr. Homegrown

November 21, 2007

Preparedness, Rocket Stove

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...wigs and kindling on this shelf and start the stove up with newspaper underneath the shelf. As the twigs burn you push them in over the edge to keep the fire going. Our first test run of the stove was very successful–we boiled a pot of water and cooked some eggs in a a pan. The fire burned cleanly with little smoke except during start up. For more info on rocket stoves check out the Aprovecho Research Center. And please people don’t burn wood insi...

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What to do with not-so-good tomatoes

Mrs. Homegrown

April 21, 2015

Food, Recipes, Tomatoes

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...r fresh tomatoes in many recipes. They’re good as a side dish, on pasta or rice dishes, in hearty salads, soups, scrambles or alongside eggs in an English breakfast kind of scenario....

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Help! I’ve got Paper Wasps

Mr. Homegrown

August 2, 2016

Animals, Insects

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...Biology Like honeybees, paper wasp are social insects. A mated queen lays eggs. But the similarity ends there. Paper wasp nests range in size between a dozen to 200 individuals. A honeybee colony can be made up of 60,000 workers or more. And honeybees only gather pollen and nectar. Paper wasps feed their young with protein (other insects). What a paper wasp sting feels like About the only way you can get stung by a paper wasp is to grasp one. I d...

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An Open Letter to Our Mammalian Friends

Mr. Homegrown

August 10, 2015

Animals, Gardening, Pests

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...ountant will have to devise an elaborate amortization strategy to keep our eggs affordable. I’m also not cool with the daytime raids on the fig tree even if it entertains our indoor cats. To the rats of Los Angeles: avocados do not mature on the tree. This is probably why you take a single bite and allow them to fall to the ground. You’ll never get guacamole this way. And can you please not drop half-eaten grapes all over our patio furniture. Not...

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