018 Wendy and Mikey of Holy Scrap Hot Springs

September 24, 2014

...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

Mr. Homegrown

October 15, 2014

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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2014, a Year in Comments: Plant Thievery, Loquats, Breakfast Cerial and the Apocalypse

Mr. Homegrown

December 26, 2014

Age of Limits, Food, Permaculture, Thoughtstylings

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...f Kelly’s motivation for writing this post was her skepticism of my loquat fruit leather recipe. I considered it the equivalent of discovering the loquat northwest passage. Despite Kelly’s brave stab at understanding the loquat, I don’t think we have a definitive answer on the subject. Perhaps we need to construct a kind of loquat Hadron Collider to solve this problem. Hey, that sounds like our first Kickstarter! 3. A Year After the Age of Limits:...

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De-Cluttering for DIYers, Homesteaders, Artists, Preppers, etc.

Mrs. Homegrown

February 9, 2015

Cleaning, Tidying up

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...be nice to have projects done when they need to be done. Jam made when the fruit is ripe. Christmas gifts finished before Thanksgiving. That cob oven built in time for the summer party season. Imagine. #2 Let go of old interests Creative people are curious people. We go through a lot of creative phases. And in each phase, we accumulate equipment and supplies specific to that phase. Once we go onto a new thing, we often don’t return to our old thin...

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Nextdoor: Monetizing Your Neighbors

Mr. Homegrown

March 10, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...factual: Invitations to neighborhood events. Questions about utilities (Why wasn’t the garbage picked up? Is there a power outage?). Referrals for professional services. Security concerns, like suspicious cars or vandalism. Lost and found pets. Giveaways of furniture, plants, excess fruit, etc. Everything else is just noise and distraction. We’d all agree to the rules before signing up and there’ would be a small committee of three that would mode...

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