Search Results for: label/fruit/2010/06/the-urban-homestead

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Prickly Wisdom

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Food, Foraging, Fruit Trees, Gardening
...s open while they are still attached to the cactus and scoop out the inner fruit with your finger tips. I usually take them inside the house and enjoy them by slicing them in half and holding one end with a fork and with a spoon scoop out the flesh. But on a hot day working in the yard I’ll have a snack and using my pocket knife slice open the skin and access the juicy center while it is still attached to the cactus. I have 6 varieties now includi...

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Saturday Linkages: Invaders, Sick Chickens and Adaptive Reuse

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Saturday Linkages
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...n Ivy – http://tafarm.us/1kEpTgQ via @TenthAcreFarm “Does Beauty Still Matter?” A thoughtful article by @mharrisonhough http://goo.gl/WxIcmv Adaptive Reuse: Old Stuff, New Life http://wp.me/p4fosC-i8 The Tree of 40 Fruit http://feedly.com/e/oYHHyvzf Protected Bike Lanes Grow in CA as Cities Face Down Old Concerns http://feedly.com/e/3IuLGbkP For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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Frida Paints Luther

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Fruit Trees, Gardening, Thoughtstylings
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...oundaries between human consciousness, the vegetable and the animal. In her portrait of Burbank she touches on themes of life, death and transformation. You could write a book about what’s going on in this painting. Burbank’s work lives on inour backyards and orchards in the form of the fruit varieties he developed. I’ll view his Santa Rosa plum in our front yard differently after encountering Kahlo’s virtuosic painting....

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018 Wendy and Mikey of Holy Scrap Hot Springs

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Podcasts
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...etables What failure teaches Wild desert foods How they juice prickly pear fruit “Mad skills” Mikey’s temperature controller for fermentation and sous-vide You can find their store at: store.holyscraphotsprings.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 iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenste...

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021 The Queen of Quince

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Food, Food Preservation, Fruit Trees, Gardening, Podcasts
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...ely make room for a quince tree. If not, you should work with this amazing fruit. During the podcast Barbara discusses how to prep and cook quince. We also talk about savory dishes made with quince and take a detour into a discussion about muhammara. We also discuss: The National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Quince Barbara’s Youtube video on how to prep quince Quince coring tool (a.k.a. The Fresno Armenian Cooking Widget) Buy it here. Medicinal...

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