The Jerusalem Cookbook

...rt. It has lots of meat and fish recipes, but it also has plenty of salad, vegetable, bean and grain recipes, so it’s friendly to both vegetarians and meat eaters. We’re mostly vegetarian, and we feel like we’ve only scratched the surface of the meatless offerings so far. Though there are a lot of veg recipes which use eggs, yogurt and cheese, there are also good vegan-friendly offerings. To give you a feel for the book, these are the recipes we’v...

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Saturday Tweets: Artisinal Junk Food, Wide Streets and Neon Succulents

...zWUcg — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 25, 2015 Building Healthy Soils in Vegetable Gardens: Cover Crops Have Got It Covered Part I: Introduction to Cover Cropping http://t.co/kW3CLy8UJb — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 24, 2015 Where should you site your veggie garden: http://t.co/vEwdtLlA7K — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 24, 2015 A town that sleeps like it's pre-industrial times via @BoingBoing http://t.co/RXhgfwOI4t — Root Simple (@roo...

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Saturday Tweets: Tweeterdämmerung

S3E17 of The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener radio show is here to download Host Joey & Holly talk about How to keep tomatoes healthy all season long, The value of Bees guest Erik Knute of @rootsimple https://t.co/ZyjCrFNMZ6 pic.twitter.com/w2nKthe0Bm — TheWIVegGardener (@TheWIVegGardenr) June 24, 2019 Why did most major car makers install fake pollution controls on millions of cars? Answer: competition among capitalists to profit from car productio...

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Stop Digging! The Benefits of No-Till and Cover Crops

...mercial agriculture I think it’s safe to extrapolate their results to home vegetable gardens. The latest issue of California Agriculture sums up the study, Symbiotrophic fungi expand the surface area of roots, allowing roots greater access to water and nutrients (in exchange for carbon). Fungi, however, are more sensitive than other microorganisms to physical disturbance. Adopting no-till as a conservation management practice eliminates or greatly...

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