084 How to Make Your Own Cheese with David Asher

...l Methods and Raw Ingredients to Make the World’s Best Cheeses. During the podcast we discuss: The difference between natural cheesmaking and the way most cheese is made in North America. Using a kefir culture to make cheese. The importance of quality milk. What if I can’t get raw milk? Easy cheeses. The ins and out of rennet and how to make your own. WalcoRen rennet. Using cardoon flowers instead of rennet. Tools you need for cheesemaking. Hackin...

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012 Damnation, Good Books and Listener Questions

...g Psychomagic by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Listener Questions We answer Gloria’s questions about making bread, weeds and fertilizer. Summary: get Josey Baker Bread, mulch and pee in your garden! 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. Frankenstein. Additional music by R...

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044 Daniel Kent: Cabin Dweller’s Textbook

...tic Technology classes Wool and how to wash it Roasting your own coffee with a Whirley Pop Sourcing green coffee at Sweet Maria’s and Bodhi Leaf Coffee Traders Cowboy coffee Sharpening tools 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. Frankenstein. Additional music by R...

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A Prickly Harvest

...next spring the good folks at Process Media will be releasing our book The Urban Homesteader. While we’ve been negligent in some of the small scale agricultural duties we profile in the book, at least we have our prickly pear cactus to keep us in fruit this summer. And due to the unusual quantity of fruit our prickly pear has gifted us with we’re experimenting with making jelly to deal with the abundance. We’ll share the recipe and other prickly s...

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