Saturday Linkages: Soils, Prickly Pear and the Case for Going Outside

August 31, 2013

...ide-cooking-safe/ … Use thermometers says health reporter nearly killed by food poisoning http://barfblog.com/2013/08/use-thermometers-says-health-reporter-nearly-killed-by-food-poisoning/ … Waste: The Dark Side of the New Coffee Craze http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/waste-the-dark-side-of-the-new-coffee-craze/Content?oid=3687220 … The case for going outside http://www.salon.com/2013/08/28/the_case_for_going_outside/ … For these links and mo...

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Saturday Linkages: Passive Cooling, Cats and Three Mules

Mr. Homegrown

September 28, 2013

Saturday Linkages

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...sweek.com/articles/2013-09-19/how-germany-s-alw-got-busted-for-the-largest-food-fraud-in-u-dot-s-dot-history … Our Right to be Outside: Three Mules http://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/09/our-right-to-be-outside-three-mules.html … Roads Kill: Mapping the Automobile’s Global Body Count (Be sure to go full screen with the map for the interactive presentation.) http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/09/25/roads-kill-mapping-the-automobiles-global-body-count/ …...

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Saturday Linkages: Bitters, Dogs and Native Plants

Mr. Homegrown

December 7, 2013

Saturday Linkages

...meals-handout-now-available/ …. Eagle Rock backyard yields fresh fruit and food for the hungry http://www.theeastsiderla.com/2013/12/eagle-rock-backyard-yields-fresh-fruit-and-food-for-the-hungry/ … Native plants: restoring an idea–http://www.patternliteracy.com/116-native-plants-restoring-to-an-idea … In the U.S., recycling is often pigeonholed as… – Unconsumption http://disq.us/8gf2so For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Foll...

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Prickly Pear Jelly Recipe

Mr. Homegrown

August 9, 2007

Food, Recipes

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...aguaro fruit but prickly pear fruit will do in a pinch). This August we’re making jelly. Here’s how to do it: 1. Taking reader Steven’s (of the fine blog Dirt Sun Rain) suggestion, burn off the nasty spines by holding the fruit over a burner on the stove for a few seconds. Using the non-cutting edge of a knife held at a 90º angle to the fruit, scrape off what remains of the spines (technically called glochids). 2.There are many methods described o...

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I made shoes!

Mrs. Homegrown

October 21, 2014

Domesticus

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As regular Root Simple readers know, I’ve been obsessing on making shoes for some time now, but was not able to wrap my mind around the process without help. Help arrived this weekend in the form of the wonderful–and wonderfully patient– Randy Fritz, who taught me and four other intrepid souls how to make turnshoes over the course of the last 4 days. Lesson 1: As we have all suspected, shoes are not easy to make. Seriously not easy. Four full day...

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