Cold brewed tisanes, teas and coffee: Your summertime best friends

July 25, 2016

...ried nettle cold brew. Cold brewed nettles taste a little less like a cook vegetable than hot brewed nettles. Sometimes I mix nettles and mint half and half, to make the nettles a little more sprightly. Extreme wonkery over iced tea and iced coffee I am a lazy person. I enjoy sitting in my proverbial armchair and reading about other people’s obsessive quests to make things like the perfect cold brewed iced tea, but when it comes time to make it my...

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061 National Heirloom Expo Report

Mr. Homegrown

September 16, 2015

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

Mr. Homegrown

April 4, 2015

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

Mr. Homegrown

March 28, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...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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The Jerusalem Cookbook

Mrs. Homegrown

February 17, 2015

Food, Reviews

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...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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