A Day of the Dead Altar

October 30, 2015

...or Phoebe needs a special place this year. There will be a loaf of Pan de Muerto up there when I get it baked. If I fail in this task, I’ll add some fruit and candy to altar. Tell us about your Day of the Dead traditions!...

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Our new front yard, part 2: theory

Mrs. Homegrown

November 13, 2015

Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening

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...picturesque trees– an aesthetic that has shaped what we think parks and suburban yards should look like–no matter where we live. Some people think this bias may even go back to our earliest ancestral memories–to the savannas, where we liked long, clear views so we could spot both dangers and opportunities easily–and handy trees to scramble into if we needed to get away from a predator. Whatever the reason, we like open spaces which are easily read...

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068 Planting a Post-Wild Garden

Mr. Homegrown

November 18, 2015

Garden Design, Gardening, Podcasts

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...e remake of our front yard. We talk about why we took out a bunch of stone fruit trees and Kelly discusses how the principles in Thomas Rainer and Claudia West’s book Planting in a Post-Wild World inspired the new design of our yard. 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...

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The Wonder of Worms

Mrs. Homegrown

May 21, 2015

Back to the Garden, Gardening, Vermiculture

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...if we can manage that, we want more. More vegetables. Bigger flowers. More fruit. Now. And to do that, we construct artificial, hyper-productive systems–like garden beds. To support these systems, we also construct artificial systems in which to raise worms, so we can harvest their castings and put them where we want them, when we need them. These are worm bins. What exactly do you do with worm castings? Worm castings are often referred to as fert...

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069 Understanding Roots with Robert Kourik

Mr. Homegrown

December 2, 2015

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Podcasts, Vegetable Gardening

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...Kourik’s new book Understanding Roots. From there we touch on how to plant fruit trees and the intricacies of how to water trees, vegetables and native plants. Then we delve deep into drip irrigation, dynamic accumulators and phytoremediation. If you’d like to pick up a copy of one of Robert’s books visit robertkourik.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.co...

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