093 Micheal Judd on Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist

September 21, 2016

...ntour Dealing with homeowner’s associations Pawpaws Custard apples InStove rocket stove Cocktails American persimmons Mulberries and grafting mulberries Jujubes Growing mushrooms Source for mushroom spawn: Field and Forest and Fungi Perfecti A permacultural approach to death and home burial 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 pod...

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Checking in on Kelly’s projects

Mrs. Homegrown

September 12, 2014

Miscellaneous

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...I wanted to learn ceramics, so I can make ollas, a clay tippy tap, a clay rocket stove, and in my wildest dreams, beautiful earthy modernist ceramics like those sold by Heath Ceramics. I took a wheel class earlier this summer, and I was the sorriest potter in the entire class. I am not being modest. It was embarrassing. All around me people were raising beautiful pots on their wheels and I just got lots of clay in my hair. In the end I came home...

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Video Tour of the Root Simple Compound

Mr. Homegrown

May 22, 2013

Thoughtstylings

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...QXIwRTDqgE Johnny Sanphillippo from Faircompanies.com shot a nice video tour of our house. Excuses for the audio–it was shot during a very windy day. And I really need to get around to painting the garage! You’ll see our chicken coop. The video also features our rocket stove, horno and emergency potty plus a spin around the pantry. But the real star of this video is our 1920 bungalow. I wish they still build houses like this (sorry Dwell). Thank y...

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Citified Parched Corn

Mrs. Homegrown

March 18, 2013

Food, Food Preservation, How-to, Recipes

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..., so the corn gets toasted on all sides. It happens fast. Do not leave the stove! These citified nibblets won’t swell and crack like whole corn, but they will dance a little in the pan. Take the corn to a nice toasty golden brown, dump that batch into a bowl that you’ve got waiting next to the stove and start the next batch. It’s a fast, easy process. Blueberries! After I was done, I realized I had about a cup of dried blueberries on hand– berries...

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Solar recipe review: Moroccan Chickpea Tagine (Works on the stovetop, too)

Mrs. Homegrown

August 12, 2016

Food, Recipes, Solar Oven Summer

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...o very much like many a quick bean-based stews I’ve thrown together on the stove top over the years. If you don’t have a solar oven, or if its cloudy outside, you can certainly make this on the stove. I’ll add notes about that at the end. This recipe comes from the Solavore recipe collection, which is the best collection of solar recipes I’ve found on the internet. I’ve found you have to be really careful with random solar recipes found on the int...

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