118 Eric of Garden Fork on Old Houses, Queen Bees and Ramps

...ow Eric mentions: His live question and answer session Will of the Weekend Homestead New York City water tower video Raising queen bees Better Bee Pacific Ready Cut catalog New York Times article on the over harvesting of ramps Growing your own ramps Eric’s cornpone disaster If you’d like 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 iTun...

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Our New Open Floor Plan

...ared them a “death trap.” Then the good natured Will Wallus of the Weekend Homestead came on the podcast to gently defend open floor plans. Naturally, I’m spending this month making our house, gasp, more open. Let me explain. When I installed the floor in the living room in the aughts I discovered an opening that used to exist between our living room and what we use as our bedroom. Back in 1920 this house was a one bedroom with a kind of sitting r...

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105 GardenNerd’s Tips for Organic Gardening Success

...ch 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 Extending the growing season for tomatoes Mulch Shade cloth Capillary matting Don’t pull your bolting vegetables! Ollas What...

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Saturday Tweets: Counting Poultry, Cocktails and Homesteading Without a Garden

80 Ways to Homestead Without a Garden https://t.co/aoBY3uLJT7 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 10, 2017 R-PiAlerts: Build a WiFi Based Security System With Raspberry Pis https://t.co/fO1wOgEfFr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 9, 2017 Poultry census results: https://t.co/bu2q0xOrgp — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 10, 2017 L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living there makes people sick https://t.co/TlKPhiSWeQ — Root Simple (@root...

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