Saturday Linkages: Wind Maps, Wildlife Gardens and Other Obsessions

September 27, 2014

...Globalization http://garynabhan.com/i/archives/2613 The fear of bees http://www.honeybeesuite.com/the-fear-of-bees/ … Is fall fertilization a good idea? http://blogs.extension.org/gardenprofessors/2014/09/22/what-about-fall-fertilization/ … Fast Facts about Cutting Boards and Food Safety in Your Kitchen (from The Abstract) http://barfblog.com/2014/09/fast-facts-about-cutting-boards-and-food-safety-in-your-kitchen-from-the-abstract/ … Beautiful Ca...

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014 All About Pressure Canning With Ernest Miller

Mr. Homegrown

August 27, 2014

Food, Food Preservation, Podcasts

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...s: USDA Guide to Home Canning So Easy to Preserve National Center for Home Food Preservation Ball University of Alaska Fish Canning Recipes We conclude with answer to listener questions including: Modifying recipes The difference between pressure cookers and canners Glass top and induction ranges and pressure canning Canning salsas Canning meats You can follow Ernie’s company, Rancho La Merced Provisions on Facebook. Make sure to check out his bea...

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I picked a peck of pickled peaches

Mr. Homegrown

April 8, 2016

Food, Food Preservation, Fruit Trees, Gardening

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...aches? Yes, you can pickle them. This I learned from Kevin West’s bible of food preservation, Saving the Season. In the introduction to his pickled green almond recipe (p. 103) West notes that immature stone fruit such as peaches and nectarines can be pickled in the same way as green almonds (almonds are a stone fruit too). If you don’t thin this branch it will break off. I’d share Kevin’s recipe with you but he’s a fellow author and you really sh...

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The problem with polar fleece: it’s in the ocean, it’s in sea creatures, it’s on our plates

Mrs. Homegrown

August 17, 2016

Domesticus

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...lution in the ocean, they are also consumed by marine life. They enter the food chain. Confused bivalves and shrimp eat this stuff, and we eat them. In short, we are eating our fleece jackets. And nobody knows what health impacts all this ingestion of microplastics will have for us, or the sea creatures. The news first came to me, ironically enough, via Patagonia, purveyors of very expensive polar fleece. They’d commissioned a study on this, which...

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Adopt an Indigo Plant in Los Angeles

Mr. Homegrown

May 23, 2014

Events, Gardening

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...easy to grow. All it needs is lots of sunshine, plenty of water, and some food. As an experiment, I’ve germinated a bunch of indigo seeds and want to get the seedlings into as many people’s hands as possible! I hope to spread the wonder about the fact that color can be grown, to raise the consciousness of humanity’s original sources of pigment, and to get people to exercise their thumbs, green or otherwise! The pigment can be extracted from the m...

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