018 Wendy and Mikey of Holy Scrap Hot Springs

...y juice prickly pear fruit “Mad skills” Mikey’s temperature controller for fermentation and sous-vide You can find their store at: store.holyscraphotsprings.com. 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 theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additional music by Rho. A downloadable version of...

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Learn to Embroider at Trade School Los Angeles

...they have a zero waste sewing and mending class on the 16th and a class on fermentation on the 23rd. For more information on these classes head to their Eventbrite listing. Here’s how it works according to their website: Step 1) Classes at Trade School LA are taught in exchange for barter items provided by students. For example, if you teach a class about building a website, you might ask students to bring 1 of the following barter items: a pack g...

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FlicFloc Sticker Shock

...for a day or two at room temperature. The time at room temperature causes fermentation and gives your oats a pleasant, sour flavor. You can make a batch of it ahead of time and put it in the refrigerator after it reaches the right amount of sour funk. Baker suggests adding nuts and maple syrup to make your oatmeal more interesting. Lastly, let me add that, back in 2015, I compared the results of the FlicFloc vs. a cheap, surplus store grain crack...

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Our Grape Arbor is a Stacking Function Fail

...eekend, combined with a few days of heat and humidity, got some very funky fermentation going. It’s like something out of my inner Martha Stewart’s worst nightmare. A poster by Benjamin Dewey. Available in his Etsy store. I wish I had a conclusion to this post with a miraculous solution, like say specially trained roof Chihuahuas. I don’t. I do wish that the non-fruit producing Vitis californica vine that grows along our northern fence could be sw...

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Saturday Tweets: Dogs, Land Use, Kale and Rocket Cats

...for your nuka properly, you need to stir it daily, sometimes twice a day”. Fermentation and Daily Life: https://t.co/QLWXikB71I pic.twitter.com/808KNx0MjG — lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) July 29, 2018 Not sexy but necessary tech Part 1: There’s not enough Cobalt & Nickel on Earth for all the batteries we’ll need for electric car revolution. We urgently need to develop new battery tech. https://t.co/Ol7mgApjAP — Margaret Wertheim (@margaretwer...

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