Maintaining a Worm Bin

July 19, 2013

...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

Mr. Homegrown

October 8, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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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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How to Seed a Pomegranate

Mr. Homegrown

October 28, 2015

Food, Fruit Trees, Gardening

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...r. Take a spatula or other sturdy object and then spank the back until the seeds release (this sounds more erotic than it actual is). If I’m lazy I just pick out the pith from the bowl. If I’m more thorough I’ll fill the bowl with water so that you can easily skim off the pith which floats to the surface. Our tree gifted us with an abundant crop, so this has been a daily practice for the last month. This is also confirmation of my theory that the...

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Our new front yard, part 6: it’s all potential at this point

Mrs. Homegrown

December 21, 2015

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

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...zy looking handrail!): But it is truly all potential. There are wildflower seeds waiting to sprout and other surprises to come. I hope to be able to show you something wonderful this spring. So stay tuned. In the meantime, I will update this series if anything comes up– any new mistakes or discoveries or victories on the road to developing a meadow community. Doing this project has made me aware of how often we expect instant results with our land...

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How to Make Your Own DIY Instant Oatmeal

Mrs. Homegrown

March 24, 2016

Food, How-to, Recipes

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...ies, apricots, cherries, apples, and freeze dried bananas or strawberries; seeds of different sorts like chia, flax and hemp; additional fiber such as wheat bran, exotic substances like cacao nibs, coconut, candied ginger and powdered milk. Nuts fall into the add-in category too, of course, but personally I like to toast my nuts and store them in a separate container to keep them crunchy until needed, because no one likes soggy nuts. But do as you...

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