Chicken of the Woods 2021

...upset. You also need to avoid specimens growing on conifers or eucalyptus trees. I’d advise eating a small amount first and seeing how you do. We consumed copious quantities of it with no ill effect. Recent research has shown that what was once thought of as one species of chicken of the woods in North America is, in fact, a complex of species. Here in the west we have Laetiporus gilbertsonii. Here’s some good photos showing Laetiporus gilbertson...

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Olive Questions

...season the brine? While my attempt at growing annual vegetables was a disaster this year, let me say how thankful Kelly and I are to have planted fruit trees ten years ago. The most successful: pomegranates, figs and olives. If you’d like to try curing olives, but don’t have any trees of your own, you can always forage them. In the past month I’ve spotted fruiting olive trees in Hollywood on a side street adjacent to the Kaiser complex, in a park...

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There is Something Beyond the Straw Bale

...ised bed or a straw bale or an alternation of both bed and bale. The fruit trees, for those keeping score, consist of a fig, pomegranate, avocado and olive as well as a few stone fruit trees that we will likely remove since the squirrels get every single fruit. In the perennial vegetable catagory, there’s also a few artichokes that pop up here and there, prickly pear cactus and an indestructible stand of New Zealand spinach. When Laramee is done w...

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We Grew a Cocktail Avocado!

...either male or female. In fact, they are all both. The differences between trees are about when the timing of this alternate gendered flowering occurs. UC Davis goes on to explain, Nature has provided for avocado cross-pollination by creating varieties of two kinds. The “A” type is female in the morning of the first day and male in the afternoon of the second day (when the weather is warm). The “B” type is just the reverse: its flowers are female...

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Saturday Linkages: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

...s://t.co/snomX79T5f — Road Ecology Center (@roadecology) November 20, 2017 Trees in eastern US head west as climate changes. Breaking from the general poleward movement of many species, flowering trees take an unexpected turn. https://t.co/UVDilKTrxa pic.twitter.com/O3DRF2E6RD — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) November 25, 2017 @rootsimple https://t.co/zKBLnvlhZ3 — TommyBerbas (@TommyBerbas) November 21, 2017 College is so much different than high...

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