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So Much Chicory, So Little Time

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Miscellaneous
...Chicory mania continues here around the casa with a grid of some of the many varieties available at Seeds from Italy. At the risk of turning into a chicory blog, we’d also like to augment Wednesday’s chicory post with a link to a recipe for chicory and beans posted by Homegrown Revolution reader Sognatrice, an American living in Southern Italy. Grazie!...

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Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land

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...ether. They will bring back the old grains of the region as symbols of the seeds of wisdom that we must plant. Over the centuries, these ancient sees have adapted to place. It is just not just a natural ecosystem, but a cultural ecosystem as well. At the end of the conversation, he’s asked how he thinks his vision will fly in the face of climate change. He laughed gently and replied, I can’t waste time worrying about whether or not this will work....

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Tree Spinach – Chenopodium giganteum

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Food, Foraging, Vegetable Gardening
...as Quinoa and Epazote. Tree spinach is a tall, hardy annual that easily reseeds itself and can become invasive–but we give extra points for the combination of invasive and edible. Tree spinach contains saponins and oxalic acid, substances which the Plants for a Future database notes can cause nutritional and medical problems. Note to all the raw food fetishists out there–cooking takes care of both oxalic acid and saponins. We ordered our tree spi...

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Maintaining a Worm Bin

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Composting, Miscellaneous, Vermiculture
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...y if I were selling them–I wouldn’t put eggshells or fruit pits or pumpkin seeds into my bin at all. These things just linger and are hard to sift out. Harvesting the Castings Harvesting castings is the only hard part about keeping a bin–and it’s not even hard, it’s just somewhat less than convenient. No matter how long you rest one side of the bin, there will always be a few confused worms living in the finished castings. If you bag them up with...

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Saturday Tweets: Bee Stings and Doughnuts

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...WNARtK — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 It’s Now Legal to Share Seeds in California https://t.co/P33oNfJv3E via @CivilEats — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 No-Fry Doughnuts, 1976 – A Vintage Halloween Recipe Re-Run https://t.co/uf03TU7PDs — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 Growing a jungle in a New York apartment: https://t.co/KTs7Y5vUXs — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 How to Treat a Bee Sting | The Art o...

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