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Cottage Food Operations Workshop Offered by UC Cooperative Extension

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Events, Food
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...nd juices are NOT legally acceptable cottage foods. Learn about: • Cottage Food Law • Food science and sanitation • Information about processing jams/jellies, honey, nuts, dried fruit, baked goods • Packaging and storage • Business operations for CFOs Please come join us for this one day event: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Morning refreshments and lunch will be provided. UC Cooperative Extension Los Angeles County 700 W. Main St...

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Compost and Pharmaceuticals

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Composting, Gardening, Humanure, Straw Bale Gardening
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...omposting technique is effective in reducing salinomycin in manure. Another 2010 study looked at the composting of sewage sludge containing fluoroquinolones (broad spectrum antibiotics), The concentrations of pharmaceutical residues in compost were significantly lower, if compared to the relevant concentrations in sewage sludge . . . It is concluded that before using the sewage sludge compost as a fertilizer it should be carefully tested against t...

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Making New Drawers . . . Plus Rants . . . Plus Roland Barthes

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Design
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...Once I got home from the lumberyard I set about installing the slides and making story sticks, which are pieces of scrap wood cut to the precise size of the final drawer and used as a guide for milling and sizing the final dimensions of the maple I had bought. In making drawers there’s a very, very small margin of error in terms of sizing. You have to be precise. https://youtu.be/jyMwR3jjtGg The next step was to cut the dovetails. I took a class...

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It Quacks Like a Duck

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Animals
...of the line was an old comrade of ours, one of the proprietors of Petaluma Urban Homestead, who we know from Mr. Homegrown Revolution’s post grad school sojourn in the dull city of San Diego. In the ten years since we lost contact it turns out that our lives have taken similar paths, including the appreciation of Xtracycles and poultry. Except that the folks at Petaluma Urban Homestead have had the brilliance of exploring the world of ducks in add...

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Why Urban Farm?

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Animals, Chickens
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...the animals, and that we should provide as much simple comfort and dignity to our fellow creatures as we can. After all, aren’t simple comfort and dignity among the most important things we wish for ourselves and our children?” It is with this desire to know the food we eat–if just for eggs in our case–that we’ve begun our own urban small stock journey. Welch concludes his essay eloquently, “I have a lot more death in my life than I did before. An...

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