A Sasquatch in the Garden?

I keep a mental note of all the objects I’ve dug up while gardening over the years. The soil surrounding our house has mostly thrown up broken milk bottles from the days of the milkman. I’ve also found a lot of what I think are perfume bottles. Mostly though my shovel hits chunks of long buried concrete. Then I curse. But this week, while we’ve been working on version 5.3 of our difficult to garden steep front slope, I uncovered the strangest obj...

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138 Erics Gone Wild

...rk using a bonding agent such as Weld-Crete De-cluttering the garage A big gardening problem Building a boat Gavin Atkin Ultra Simple Boat Building 17 Plywood Boats Anyone Can Build Storer Boat Plans Fixing a canoe Insulation and new windows You can also find Eric on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. If you’d like 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 t...

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The Perfect Crisis Vegetable: Prickly Pear Cactus

...came with the house and another that I picked up a few years ago: Luther Burbank’s spineless variety that, well, isn’t actually spineless. My favorite method for preparing and eating the pads is to scrape them with a knife to remove the spines (you don’t need to peel the skin off). I then chop and boil the pads for five minutes to reduce the sliminess. Then I fry the pads in a pan with onions. You can also just chop the pads and eat them raw in a...

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Our New Home Economics

...s full of stuff you eat on a regular basis works for almost everyone. In my own case this crisis has highlighted food related practices in my life that are useful and those that aren’t. Bread making? Useful. Vegetable gardening? Wish I had one right now. Avocado tree? Thankful that it has fruit. Storage space for buckets? Need to get on that. In the next few posts I’ll look at what’s working in our household and what isn’t....

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Saturday Tweets: Ascension K-Mart Choppers

.../t.co/7QmToNs5Kt — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 3, 2019 Why are monks and gardening so hot right now? – https://t.co/ojOTCDe3zD — Anne Fletcher (@OrtaGardens) May 3, 2019 How to Memorize an Entire Chapter from "Moby Dick": The Art and Science of Remembering Everything https://t.co/tSyRZNpEsa via @openculture — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 3, 2019 Just learned that I received a grant for which my cat accidentally clicked 'submit' while I...

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