Our Disastrous Summer Garden

September 15, 2015

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

...ith better raccoon fortifications. Take out stone fruit that isn’t performing (Kelly has wanted to do this for a long time but I’ve dragged my heels). Take better notes. Improve soil and restart a composting project. Come up with small metal cages to enclose fruit (I have a notion that involves 3D printing–more on this later). How did your garden do this summer?...

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051 Toilets and Poultry

Mr. Homegrown

July 1, 2015

Animals, Chickens, Composting, Humanure, Podcasts

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.... Eric mentions a podcast episode of Tiny House Chat where they talk about composting toilets. Then we discuss poultry biosecurity lessons that “West Coast” Erik learned at a recent conference. So, yes, toilets and poultry! Take that Elon Musk! If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The the...

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Day to day, our decisions count

Mrs. Homegrown

April 30, 2015

Back to the Garden

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...r meals. Some people are really good at this. I am not. Let us know if you have a good technique. The final stop gap to food wastage is composting–but that is a subject unto itself....

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The Soil Beneath Our Feet

Mrs. Homegrown

April 23, 2015

Back to the Garden

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...t 5 areas of personal action on behalf of the soil: Our consumer decisions Composting Mulching No-till gardening Committing to not using chemical fertilizers and pesticides This being Root Simple, I know our readers are savvy–in fact, I suspect our readers know more about this stuff than we do. But I natter on nonetheless, preaching to the choir. I hope the information I’ll be posting helps to provide you all with a little inspiration, or a fresh...

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Compost Piles on Fire!

Mr. Homegrown

October 2, 2014

Composting, Gardening

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...the biology. BioCycle has a whole article on fire prevention in municipal composting facilities that covers this common problem. So what situation(s) can lead to a fire? Here’s what can happen with a low moisture, large pile with little air exchange, combined with water getting into the pile in a place where there is enough air to support biological activity and chemical oxidation, but not enough to cool the pile. An old, dry compost pile, or a p...

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