Coffee and Tahini Date Balls

...ey can be a bit on the dry side. If you live near a co-op or a health food store with bulk bins full of dates, you’re in good shape as well. And if you live in the right region, you may be able to find them at the farmers’ market. Tahini is a paste made of ground sesame seeds. If you want a large selection of brands, and low prices, go to a Middle Eastern market. But you can also always find tahini in any health food store, and more and more it’s...

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The Gathering Storm

...ssage therapist who helped me heal from a car accident, gone. The hardware store I’d drop into, gone. The coffee place, gone. The gallery I went to an opening at just last weekend, gone. The burger place we ate at last Saturday, gone. The place I did book tour lectures at, likely, gone. Historic churches, gone. The Theosophical Library, with 15,000 rare books, gone. To have walked around just last weekend to go to that art opening, shop at a nurse...

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017 Heirloom Expo Recap

...the podcast: California Rare Fruit Growers Rachel Kaplan, author of Urban Homesteading Trathen Heckman of Daily Acts Apiculturalist Michael Thiele “Fruit Freak” John Valenzuela Franchi seed seller The Heirloom Seed Store Permaculturalist Toby Hemenway 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....

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Discover the Magic of Home Milling this Saturday

...environment. Where The King’s Roost in Silver Lake is LA’s first and only urban homesteading store and learning center. We believe it is the only brick and mortar store in the country that carries a full line of home grain mills. We provide classes and supplies not just for milling and baking, but also for chicken keeping, bee keeping, soap and candle making, brewing, fermenting, and aquaponics. For more information contact: Roe Sie at roe@kingsr...

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Hay Hooks–The New Hipster Accessory?

...r the chickens) I just broke down and bought a pair. A vaquero at the feed store intervened with a neat tip when he saw me struggling to use my new hay hooks to load some bales into a friend’s truck. Here’s what he showed me. Note the red arrow in the photo above. Odds are with new hooks that this distance needs to be shortened a bit. My hay hooks were much easier to use after the feed store guy bent them using one of the anchor points in the truc...

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