Matching Your Waste Stream to Your Composting Method

...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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Saturday Linkages: Dystopian Knitwear, Green Tomatoes and Drought

...: http://www.notechmagazine.com/2014/07/animals-as-the-answer-to-recycling-food-waste.html … A Food Has an Historic, Objectionable Name. Should We Change It? http://on.natgeo.com/1jFfLsY How good are we at transportation prediction? http://bit.ly/1sfTRiI Green Tomatoes: Not Just for Frying http://wp.me/p2TfI0-ex Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design http://gu.com/p/3qk34/tw Re-imagining Parking Spaces as Micro-Apartments http://u...

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006 The Secrets of Kimchi With Hae Jung Cho

...dition, Hae Jung is organizing a guided tour of supermarkets and specialty food shops in Koreatown on the following Saturday, August 9. This tour is geared toward people who want to shop for and eat Korean food at home, especially helpful for those who want to shop for kimchi ingredients. Cost: $25. To sign up for the classes email Hae Jung at: hjc90026@yahoo.com. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-25...

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Pumpkin Spice Apocalypse

...will go bad or you won’t know how best to prepare it. Rotate through your food stocks and you’ll know what foods you like and save money while you’re at it. The weekend had a Road Warrior vibe when it became obvious that many or our neighbors had evacuated to somewhere with power, either relatives houses or a hotel. It felt like a preview of future climate uncertainty and a sober reminder of the tasks we have to prepare. At least we have kind nei...

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Pizza Dough in a Pan Recipe

...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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