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Appletastic Apple Cake

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
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...to dig it out of a regular pan, but it will still taste mighty good. The cake batter: 1/2 cup flour1/3 sugar1 tablespoon baking powder1/8 teaspoon sea salt1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract2 large eggs, lightly beaten2 tablespoons vegetable oil1/3 cup whole milk Apples, about 2 pounds worth. Wells says that’s about 4. I found it took 5 Fujis to add up to 2 lbs. Peel and core the apples, cut them in half and slice the halves into thin slices. Th...

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Barley Water

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
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...ou don’t, the finished drink looks even more like dishwater than usual. Put the rinsed barley into a quart-sized Mason jar.   Peel the yellow skin (not the pith) from one half to one full organic lemon with a zester or vegetable peeler.  Put the zest into the jar with the barley. You can go ahead and add a squeeze of lemon juice at this time, but I find I like less lemon flavor, so only use the zest. Add 1 Tablespoon of sugar. Pour boili...

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How To Design a Garden Step IV: Clues to Care

Mr. Homegrown
Garden Design, Gardening
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Clues to care at the Huntington Ranch In the landscape architecture biz, “clues to care” is a phrase meaning that a garden has some sort of indication that humans were involved. Those clues could be anything from a couple of stepping stones, a bean teepee, to a piece of garden statuary. Particularly if your garden has a wild look or if you’re trying to grow vegetables in the front yard,  “clues to care” can...

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Genetically Modified Oranges Coming to a Store Near You

Mr. Homegrown
Pests
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...h far less international and interstate shipment of goods is less vulnerable. It’s too late to deal with HLB this way, but perhaps we can head off other catastrophes. In the end, more of us will have to to plant our own vegetable gardens and run small farms. A last, ironic tidbit in that Reuter’s story–for a disease whose spread was facilitated by globalization–some of the labor intensive research necessary to deal with HL...

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Compost Outlaws

Mr. Homegrown
Composting, Thoughtstylings
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Yard Trimmings being used as “ADC” at the Bradley Landfill in Sun Valley Our neighborhood comrade Tara Kolla, who grows sweet peas for farmer’s markets in her urban backyard, has been busted for . . . composting! Specifically for composting fruit and vegetable scraps from a local restaurant. From last Friday’s Los Angeles Times: Tara Kolla said she was doing a good thing for her Silver Lake Farms business while doing the...

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Seedling Disaster!

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Mistakes, Seeds, Vegetable Gardening
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...g in a Throwaway World   Oh, but those mistakes sure can be frustrating especially when they happen in the garden!  I’ve had nothing but bad luck germinating seeds this spring for our summer garden and, as a result, our vegetable beds are as bare as the Serengeti. What happened? Here’s a list of possibilities: watering too much watering too little damping off  unseasonably cold weather (we germinate outside here) the occasional hot d...

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Growing Your Own Food is Like Printing Your Own Money: Ron Finley’s TED Talk

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Thoughtstylings
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Please take a moment and watch gangster/guerrilla gardener Ron Finley’s inspiring Ted talk. I first heard about Ron after he got busted for planting a vegetable garden in what used to be a weed strewn parkway. He’s gone on to plant many more gardens around Los Angeles. The end of this talk really hit home for me, “Don’t call me if you want to sit around and have meetings. If you want to meet with me come to the gard...

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Matt’s Wild Cherry Tomato

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Tomatoes
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Matt’s Wild Cherry image from Johnny’s Select Seeds. Permaculturalist Paul Wheaton was in our neck of the woods this weekend to give a couple of lectures. In his talk on “Irrigation Free Foodscapes” he mentioned a variety of tomato called “Matt’s Wild Cherry” that, as the name implies, is a wild-type tomato that grows without supplemental irrigation. Many avid vegetable gardeners have probably had the ex...

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The Secret to Japanese Cooking: Dashi

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
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...nd of kelp) and bonito (shaved, fermented fish flakes). It’s the backbone of Japanese cooking, but we think it’s gentle, savory character could adapt well to Western-style cooking if you use it as a substitute for vegetable stock. Dashi only keeps a few days in the fridge, so the secret to using it regularly is to freeze half of every batch you make. Next Friday we’ll post a recipe for vegetables simmered in dashi. This is a c...

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Allium ursinum

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening
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...h our dog eating onions (he prefers raiding our avocado tree and tomato bushes for illicit snacks). Special thanks to Steve Rowell of the Center for Land Use Interpretation for the photos and report. Rowell spotted this tasty vegetable at a farmer’s market in Berlin where they are a popular seasonal addition to cafe menus and even to packaged items like pesto and ravioli. If only we’d catch on to the seasonal thing in America . . ....

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