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Matching Your Waste Stream to Your Composting Method

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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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How to Store Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

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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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Fruitacular!

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Food, Gardening
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...“an eco-gastronomic organization that supports a bio-diverse, sustainable food supply, local producers, heritage foodways and rediscovery of the pleasures of the table.” I hope the photo above will encourage readers in the Florida area to get involved with this organization which is working worldwide to fight the industrialization and fast foodization of what we eat. Not in Miami? Look for a local chapter via Slow Food USA. Noel also has contribu...

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Pizza Dough in a Pan Recipe

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Food
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...would not exceed 10%. Pizza is not a health food. It’s a special occasion food and I think it tastes better with white flour. A note on sourdough starter This recipe requires sourdough starter. If you’d like to make one, check out our how-to video. Tools Digital scale (always use a scale!) 11-inch cast iron skillet or other oven proof skillet Thermometer Pizza Dough Recipe Makes four small pizzas 100 grams sourdough starter 500 grams Double 00 or...

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