Why it’s Better to Pressure Can Tomatoes

October 30, 2014

Food, Food Preservation, Gardening, Tomatoes

...ack recipe that includes both hot water and pressure canning instructions. Note that you still need to acidify. Thanks to Linda Harris, UC Cooperative Extension Specialist, Food Safety and Microbiology who gave a lecture at the Master Food Preserver conference where I gleaned these factoids....

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How to Store Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

Mr. Homegrown

October 20, 2014

Food, Food Preservation, Fruit Trees, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...m temperature for the first seven days and then go into the refrigerator? That ginger should be stored only at room temp? Preventing food waste is a topic getting a lot of attention thanks to a new documentary, Just Eat It. Estimates are that 40% of all food ends up in the dumpster. UC Davis has an incredible resource for preventing food waste in our homes in the form of a pdf you can print out and post on your refrigerator. We’ve linked to it bef...

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Saturday Tweets: Scary Gelatins and Flesh Eating Screwworms

Mr. Homegrown

October 22, 2016

Saturday Linkages

...bout relational approaches to issues like #climatechange, which I summarized in @NewRepublic https://t.co/UdWXH3uPYP — Faith Kearns (@frkearns) October 18, 2016 10 facts you might not know about Food Waste: https://t.co/35NuLW88tg #foodtank pic.twitter.com/BSF4mvmQX5 RT @Food_Tank #foodwaste — UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) October 18, 2016 What Will Break People’s Addictions to Their Phones? https://t.co/VHU1OjHuYG — Root Simple (@rootsimple)...

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Matching Your Waste Stream to Your Composting Method

Mr. Homegrown

August 12, 2014

Composting, Gardening, Vermiculture

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...gher in nutrients than a conventional compost pile. Disadvantages: Certain foods can’t be added like citrus and onions. Conventional compost pile If you have a vegetable garden and want to grow organically, you’ll need to generate a large amount of compost. This is a great way to deal with yard trimmings, grass, manure, and food waste. Advantages: makes the kind of high quality compost needed in large quantities for a vegetable garden. Disadvantag...

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Saturday Linkages: Dystopian Knitwear, Green Tomatoes and Drought

Mr. Homegrown

July 19, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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...: http://www.notechmagazine.com/2014/07/animals-as-the-answer-to-recycling-food-waste.html … A Food Has an Historic, Objectionable Name. Should We Change It? http://on.natgeo.com/1jFfLsY How good are we at transportation prediction? http://bit.ly/1sfTRiI Green Tomatoes: Not Just for Frying http://wp.me/p2TfI0-ex Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design http://gu.com/p/3qk34/tw Re-imagining Parking Spaces as Micro-Apartments http://u...

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