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Olive Harvest 2021

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Fermentation, Food, Fruit Trees, Gardening
17 Comments
...a late season application of kaolin clay when the fruit flies begin to lay eggs in the fruit. They also recommend replacing the bait every two weeks from April to November. This all takes careful observation–I only see the flies in the trap and the damage to the fruit is a bunch of very tiny holes that are hard to see at first. As the larvae develop the damage becomes obvious. Harvesting and processing olives is one of the more labor intensive gar...

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Favorite Plants- New Zealand Spinach

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...on the patio so it will be close at hand to add to your morning scrambled eggs along with dill and cheese.” I have so much in my garden right now that I may do a big harvest and blanch, chop and freeze it for later use. I make a lot of green lasagnas with massive quantities of NZ spinach. I saute it with onions and garlic and put thick layers of spinach sandwiched between noodles and cheese. When life gives you greens, you can’t go wrong. I have...

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Book Review: An Everlasting Meal

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Food, Reviews
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...arning to cook. She’ll tell you how to make basics like rice and beans and eggs, how to deal with stew meat, how to dress a salad, how to put together little finishing touches, like herbed butters or fast sauces, that make these basics sing. Even how to rescue things you screw up. I especially like how she encourages the cook to make good use of everything that goes through the kitchen, not would-be discards, like celery leaves to shrimp shells, n...

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Random Covid Thoughts

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Thoughtstylings
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...e hope for a better world. The music is breathtaking. Speaking of a better world, the DSA-LA has a Zoom meeting this Saturday I’m noticing that this “urban homestead” lifestyle thing sure is handy right now. Wish I had some citrus growing but I’m grateful for the eggs and avocados. Lastly, I used a sprayer to paint Kelly’s shed interior yesterday. I didn’t pull up the hood on my painting jumpsuit all the way. When I came into the house and looked...

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On the Difficulty of Finding Pastured Animal Products

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Animals
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...or a higher standard from this non-profit rating organization–specifically eggs and meat from a farm that looks like the one in the picture above. I’m hugely disappointed. And I wish I could be more specific but I don’t want to end up in a lawsuit. Let’s just say that at this point I’m not aware of any animal welfare rating service that I consider adequate. Let’s not even talk about the joke that is the USDA. I do think there is a entrepreneurial...

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