Seed, nut and fruit energy bars

...l they soften up. I’ve heard this works, but haven’t done it myself. Other fruits to consider would include anything sticky, like raisins, dried cherries, dried figs and dried plums. Dried apples, for instance, are not sticky, so can’t help bind the mix. You could use chopped dried apples, but count them more like a dry ingredient. 2) For extra flavor, you can add all sorts of things, like a pinch of sea salt, spices, vanilla extract, coconut flak...

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Saturday Linkages: Water Shaming, Scotts and Robot Houses

...et/2014/08/20/grid-it-knoll-your-edc.html … In Our Garden: Four Surprising Fruits http://thehorticult.com/in-our-garden-four-surprising-fruits-that-are-now-in-full-swing/ … Sneak peak of a LIGHT-UP ROBOT-FACE Tree House http://relaxshacks.blogspot.com/2014/08/sneak-peak-of-light-up-robot-face-tree.html?spref=tw … Who’s more controversial – Michelle Rhee or Scotts Miracle-Gro? | Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2014/08/whos-more-controversial-mich...

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What’s the Most Squirrel-Proof Fruit?

...scale ranging from one to five squirrels with five being the most favored fruits and one being the least favored. In the give up all hope category: Figs: Everyone loves figs. Raccoons, squirrels, rats and even Roman emperors. I’ve even seen raccoons, in the middle of the day, feasting on our delicious Mission fig. It’s easy to see why. There’s nothing like a fresh fig. And fig season is so frustratingly short. Kind of like our youth! Apples: We h...

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The Food and Flowers Freedom Act

...s, however, is that it is prohibited for city dwellers in R1 zones to grow fruits, nuts, flowers or seedlings and sell them off-site – at local farmers’ markets for example. Furthermore, no one at City Hall can agree on what Truck Gardening is. We think it’s time for the City of Los Angeles to come into the 21st century and amend its municipal code to support the burgeoning urban farming movement. It’s time L.A. legalized urban farming in R1 zones...

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Our new front yard: history

...our feet. It looked Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree, with one or two annual fruits weighing down its five spindly branches. We has chosen all the trees by their chill hours–meaning they should have been adapted enough to our warm climate to produce fruit, but it has been getting warmer and warmer here in the last few years. It is possible that they were simply not getting enough cold hours to fruit. Or maybe the persistent heat and dryness was just...

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