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Convention Report: Natural Products Expo West 2016

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Food
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...healthy as the many gluten free snacks out there. The ascendancy of Korean food. There was an entire aisle devoted to Korean products, something I was very pleased to see. A final note. Let me say how much I appreciate companies that staff their convention booths with knowledgeable employees (such as King Arthur Flour and Gustos Specialty Foods). Lesser companies hire attractive people who don’t know anything about the products they are representi...

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036 The Cat Doctor

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Animals, Cats, Podcasts
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...cats What should you feed your cats The raw food debate Natural veterinary food and homemade pet food resource: balanceit.com AAFCO feeding trial How to tell if your cat is fat Meal feeding cats How to know how much to feed a cat Dry vs. wet food Flea control Heartworm Listener questions: weepy eyes, L-Lysine Cat social hierarchy Zylkene If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to root...

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Discover the Magic of Home Milling this Saturday

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Bread, Events, Food
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...environment. Where The King’s Roost in Silver Lake is LA’s first and only urban homesteading store and learning center. We believe it is the only brick and mortar store in the country that carries a full line of home grain mills. We provide classes and supplies not just for milling and baking, but also for chicken keeping, bee keeping, soap and candle making, brewing, fermenting, and aquaponics. For more information contact: Roe Sie at roe@kingsr...

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2022 in Review: Cats, Mushrooms and Politics

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Thoughtstylings
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...inez campaign. Thankfully Hugo won in November and has already got to work making our streets safer and helping tenants and unhoused people. Tech I put up a 10 meter and 2 meter radio and did a little bit of amateur radio stuff. I’m not great at it but did manage to make digital contacts as far away as Indonesia with ancient Radio Shack equipment. I also figured out how to decode airline data transmissions but did not figure out why I would want t...

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On Living in Los Angeles Without a Car: A Debate

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Bikes, Transportation
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...ay with the issue at hand, which is whether or not we buy a new car. Erik: Making cities safe for walking and biking is exactly the kind of issue where individuals, working with city officials, can make a difference. In short, we need more moms to show up with their kids at meetings and demand safer streets. Kelly: Great. I’ll just live my Grey Gardens existence until the moms of LA mobilize and make this city into the Amsterdam of the West. Credi...

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