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The Perfect Crisis Vegetable: Prickly Pear Cactus

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...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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The Wonder of Worms

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Back to the Garden, Gardening, Vermiculture
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...in those areas. See this article from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for the basics. (This is interesting, too.) The Minnesota folks seem mostly concerned about people tossing their extra bait worms into the woods. They do mention that they believe compost worms can’t survive the long winters, so are unlikely to be a big problem. But they’re not 100% sure on that, so if your property backs onto pristine northern forest (lucky you!)...

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How to Store Bulk Goods

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Food, Preparedness
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...UC Davis has a nice fact sheet on dealing with pantry pests. Lastly, share resources and techniques with your neighbors. Knowing the folks on our block, thanks to our neighbor Jennie’s monthly happy hour parties, has been helpful. We check in via Zoom once a week, trade food and backyard fruit and run errands for folks in deep quarantine. We need not equate emergency preparedness with the sort of destructive individualism partly responsible for ge...

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Initial Thoughts on the Age of Limits 2013 Conference

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Age of Limits, Thoughtstylings
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...r blog is Our Finite World. Guy McPherson is Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, author of Walking Away from Empire. His blog: Nature Bats Last. Albert Bates is one of the board of directors of The Farm, a co-founder of the Global Eco Village Network and the author of The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change, The Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook. He blogs...

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