067 Wild Drinks and Cocktails With Emily Han

...r of Wild Drinks and Cocktails and the Communications Director for LearningHerbs.com. Emily’s website is EmilyHan.com. During the show we discuss the difference between “wildcrafting” and “foraging” and how you can use easily foraged herbs, fruits, pine needles and flowers to make shrubs, switchels, tonics and infusions. Emily also shares her easy distillation method and advice on what to do with all those prickly pear fruits! If you want to leave...

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Master Tinkerer Ray Narkevicius

...ish. All the water gets pumped around to a series of raised beds that grow herbs, dragon fruit and strawberries. His small yard overflows with the most delicious citrus you’ve ever had. And he’s a generous and kind neighbor who is always willing to lend a helping hand. Thankfully, the folks at Fair Companies, including friend of the blog Johnny, of Granola Shotgun, made a video about Ray. One of the cool things about this video is that the footage...

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Our new front yard: history

...Eventually, the front slope was the only place we weren’t growing food or herbs or medicinals–unless you counted the lavender. We wanted more fruit trees, but didn’t imagine we had room for more than the couple we already had until we learned about the concept of backyard orchard culture from Dave Wilson Nursery. This was around 2008. We decided to go radical–placing food production above any concern for traditional landscaping–and planted a mini...

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Saturday Tweets: Lyme Disease, Unuselessness and a Plum Mystery

...https://t.co/5GPl6uJlHq — Rachel Surls (@RachelSurls) May 2, 2018 Luther Burbank Left Behind a Plum Mystery… Now Rachel Spaeth (of Redwood CRFG) is trying to decode him. https://t.co/jbbaKFQQmU — Fruit Cornucopia (@ValenzuelaJohn) April 30, 2018 "The heart ties everything together and is where you find meaning in all of this." @climatehuman Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution #climatechange #CLC #mindfulness pic.twitter.com...

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Saturday Tweets: Artisinal Junk Food, Wide Streets and Neon Succulents

...d via @theREALdanmeth @buzzfeed — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 26, 2015 Herbs, Not Ammo: How to Garden With Ammunition Cans http://t.co/XlLC60v34T — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 26, 2015 Don't fall for garden store gimmicks http://t.co/hsmdrXTCuf via @WVgardenguru — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 25, 2015 Efficiency in the Kitchen to Reduce Food Waste http://t.co/tw7WtzWUcg — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 25, 2015 Building Healthy Soi...

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