050 Who Wants Seconds?

June 17, 2015

...egan cooking Tips for healthy home cooking Roasting vegetables Making your own mayonnaise Involving kids in the kitchen The problems with cooking shows Working with leftovers Advice for throwing a party Jennie’s book Who Wants Seconds? How to not burn your soup Food swaps 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 can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes st...

Read…

Your Thoughts on Treadle Feeders?

Mr. Homegrown

July 3, 2015

Animals, Chickens

8 Comments

...is dispensed. It beats having to wake up at five in the morning to put out food in a conventional feeder. You have to teach your chickens how to use a treadle feeder. One of the veterinarians suggested putting something shiny on the feeder. Your flock will step up to peck at it and discover that the feeder opens. There are two problems I can think of with a treadle feeder. One was mentioned by a fellow classmate. Squirrels figured out how to open...

Read…

That Sugar Film

Mr. Homegrown

July 16, 2015

Reviews

5 Comments

...d foods, yogurt and granola bars. Of course, all of these highly processed foods are made palatable with copious amounts of sugar. It’s the well documented Snackwell cookie syndrome: large food corporations have removed fat and replaced it with sugar to better keep us addicted to their products. During the course of the film we watch Gameau’s health decline precipitously. A disclaimer: personally, when it comes to documentaries, I prefer a vérité...

Read…

A Painful Beekeeping Lesson

Mr. Homegrown

July 20, 2015

Animals, Bees

20 Comments

...common sense. I guess the final lesson is that we humans have a special way of screwing things up. Bees? They plan ahead, store up food for a rainy day and keep focused....

Read…

Saturday Linkages: Insect Hotels, Edwardian Hipsters and Biomorphic Light Fixtures

Mr. Homegrown

June 22, 2013

Saturday Linkages

2 Comments

...3/06/good-yard-or-bad-yard-garden-design-pitfalls-2.html … Q & A – Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land http://j.mp/1844StH Edwardian stunt bikers – in pictures http://gu.com/p/3ggde/tw Interactive Light Sculpture Moves Just Like a Living Creature | Designs & Ideas on Dornob http://dornob.com/interactive-light-sculpture-moves-just-like-a-living-creature/ … Plans for Lightweight Dinghies http://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2013/06/plans-for-light...

Read…