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Butter Making Demo at the Natural History Museum

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Events
Join us for what I promise will be the Burning Man of butter making this Friday evening at the Natural History Museum. We’ll be doing a hands-on shake your own butter demo with live drummers. Best of all it’s freeeeeeeeeeeee, but you need to RSVP. And there’s more: MUSIC with COASTIN (5-7 pm) and Evan Weiss from Junk (7-9pm) BUTTER MAKING with authors, Erik Knutzen & Kelly Coyne (*timed-ticket required) POTTING SUCCULENTS (*timed-ticket required)...

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Making Tofu From Scratch at the Institute of Domestic Technology

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Food, Food Preservation
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...coffee roasting, bacon curing, bread baking, jam and exotic projects like making your own nocino and toothpaste. One of the perks of teaching at the IDT is getting to sit in on some of the other classes. The coffee roasting class changed my life. Now, every morning, I look forward to fresh coffee I roasted myself in a Whirley-Pop Popcorn maker. This past weekend I sat in a new IDT class taught by author Andrea Nguyen on how to make tofu from scra...

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Saturday Tweets: Naked Gardening Day Edition

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Saturday Linkages
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...6 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 30, 2015 Are you ready for world naked gardening day? http://t.co/QRDcDWRvSn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 1, 2015 Research confirms inadequacy of codpieces in TV version of Wolf Hall http://t.co/iG9vGdUbIG — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 1, 2015 Via @Gawker, a TN school serves its students 6-year-old pork. “Cover it with gravy to give it a better taste.” http://t.co/Bs09iyxS7Q — Lisa Lucas Talbot (@snailwrang...

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105 GardenNerd’s Tips for Organic Gardening Success

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Gardening, Podcasts, Vegetable Gardening
..., who returns this week to discuss her new ebook 400 Plus Tips for Organic Gardening Success. As you might guess we touch on a lot of topics and tips including: Monarch VR CropSwap Time Banking Homestead Hamlet Repair Cafés Sandflex Almanac.com Epic Seeds Baker Creek Seed Savers Exchange Renee’s Garden Summer Spinach National Heirloom Expo Aunt Molly’s Ground Cherry Keeping tomatoes healthy mid-season Powdery mildew When to harvest tomatoes Extend...

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Best Practices for Gardening in Contaminated Soil

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Gardening, Lead
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...neral root vegetables uptake the most lead, leafy greens less and fruit almost none. The most conservative approach is to grow in raised beds. The main concern is for children under 5 years old. If your soil tests high in lead and you have young ones you should consider doing your edible gardening in raised beds and limit their exposure to garden soils to a few times a month. Mulch and ground covers will also decrease lead exposure in the other pa...

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