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Saturday Tweets: Micro Campers, The Whole Earth Catalog and a Post-Antibiotics Future

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Saturday Linkages
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...6FB — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 28, 2015 Head Of The Episcopal Church Says It's 'Sinful' To Ignore Climate Change http://t.co/qEmnNBY1E5 via @HuffPostRelig — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2015 Building Healthy Soils in Vegetable Gardens: Cover Crops Have Got It Covered Part III: http://t.co/UB9ArF0meh #aaatopblogs #feedly — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 4, 2015 "The world is a place where they make you do stupid things."...

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Roasted Asparagus

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Food, How-to, Recipes
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...e: everything tastes better roasted. Even vegetables. I can’t think of one vegetable that doesn’t roast nicely, and asparagus is one of my favorites. All vegetables are roasted the same way, basically, but here’s an asparagus specific recipe. Roasted Asparagus Pre-heat your oven to 400F (is that 200C?) Trim the pale, woody ends off of the asparagus. Lay the asparagi down on a cookie sheet or in a baking dish–or hey, even a roasting pan! Somewhere...

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Matt’s Wild Cherry Tomato

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Gardening, Tomatoes
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...s a wild-type tomato that grows without supplemental irrigation. Many avid vegetable gardeners have probably had the experience of tomatoes that reseed and grow without care. In my experience these hardy rogue tomatoes are invariably on the cherry side of the tomato size spectrum. This makes sense as the tomato’s wild ancestor is much smaller than modern beefsteak varieties. Matt’s Wild Cherry was obtained in Hidalgo, Mexico by Teresa Arellanos de...

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061 National Heirloom Expo Report

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Gardening, Podcasts, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening
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...aker Creek Seeds and features speakers, a huge hall of heirloom fruits and vegetables, vendors, livestock, a biodynamic pavilion and live music. I’ve attended each year for five years in a row. This year I took my portable recording equipment and on this episode of the podcast you’ll hear interviews with root vegetable expert Grant Brians, Sir Cobalot, Sustainable Santa (yes you heard that right) and we’ll conclude with a discussion about the Cali...

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