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Seaweed Foraging

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Food, Foraging
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...ng the pandemic as reported by the LA Times. Back to seaweed. Here’s a few resources: California Native Plant Society article (pdf) on California Seaweeds Fin + Forage Kelp Identification guide A guide to brown seaweeds The sea forager’s guide to the Northern California coast by Kirk Lombard and Leighton Kelly (has a short section on seaweed) LA Times article on seaweed foraging in Southern California (I’ll note that I’ve heard conflicting informa...

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Hidey Holes and Hooch Hounds

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Design
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...ition sparked a lot of creativity in the 1920s even among those with fewer resources than Ned Doheny. I sometimes wonder if the trend for built in ironing boards and breakfast nook benches in 1920s era homes had a dual purpose? I also wonder if we’ll see another hidden cabinet trend if marijuana prohibition returns. In case that happens, here’s just a few clever hacks from the 1920s: “I’m just carrying a load of bricks officer.” Too bad everyone l...

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Free Online Gardening Lectures from the University of California

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Gardening
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...t on by the University of California Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (I became a Master Food Preserver back in 2012 thanks to a truly awesome training program put on by our local Extension Service and taught by Ernest Miller, a guest on episode 14 of our podcast). I’ll share some of what I learned at the conference in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I thought I’d link to a bunch of Master Gardener lectures from UCANR that you ca...

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In Praise of the Hedgerow

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Gardening
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...s of that UC study and also linked it to another nice resource, the UC Davis Arboretum Allstar list of plants that look good, provide habitat and don’t need a lot of maintenance. Combine these two resources with a third, Piet Oudolf’s magnificent ideas about plant design in his book Planting: A New Persepctive and I think we might just be able to save the world....

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