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022 Mark Stambler on How to Pass a Cottage Food Bill

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Podcasts
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...Angeles Bread Bakers Facebook pages for the cottage food bill and cottage food businesses: https://www.facebook.com/groups/282510503800/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/Creatingyourcaliforniacottagefoodbusiness/ You can find out more about Mark and his bread at stamblersbread.com. 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...

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On the documentary, Fed Up, and giving up sugar

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Food, Reviews
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...for someone already trying to disconnect from the evils of the industrial food system? Well, the message about sugar was news to me. Not that I ever thought that sugar was a health food, but this film lays out how very hard it is on our systems, how sugar, not fat, not lack of exercise, is behind rising obesity rates as well as the rise in type 2 diabetes and a host of related diseases–and most worrisome–how sugar is hidden in almost every prepar...

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004 Egg Ethics, Solar Food Dryers and a Question about Earth Ovens

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Animals, Chickens, Podcasts, Solar, Water and Power
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...Erik discuss the tricky ethics of eggs and mayonnaise, what kind of solar food dryer is the best and we answer a question from Ed about earth ovens. Plans for the Appalachian Solar Food Dryer can be found in an article on Mother Earth News. We have a detailed post on how we built our adobe oven here. If you want to leave a question you can call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additi...

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Every Day Carry Revisited

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Preparedness
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...since I reviewed the Everyday Carry (EDC) discourse (Kelly reviewed hers in 2011). A mostly male bastion of the “prepper” subculture, EDC’s highest expression is the “pocket dump,” a picture, posted to the internet, of all the things you carry with you. Pocket dumps range from mundane photos of leather wallets and keys to more provocative displays of handguns, mace and knives. Pocket dump from reddit user ChromeOcelot. They almost always consist o...

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020 Emily Green on the Mow and Blow Landscape Paradigm

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Gardening, Podcasts
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...dependent. She blogs at Chance of Rain. Writing in the Los Angeles Times in 2011 Emily says, What would you do if a neighbor came to you and asked, “For 20 minutes every week, may I turn on your vacuum cleaner, smoke detector and garbage disposal and run them all at once?” Holding that thought, consider if the neighbor added, “Ah, may I also blow noxious dust your way for those same 20 minutes?” Imagine that not just one neighbor on the street ask...

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