014 All About Pressure Canning With Ernest Miller

August 27, 2014

On the fourteenth episode of the Root Simple Podcast we talk to chef, historian, educator, consultant and speaker Ernest Miller about pressure canning.

During the show we dicuss two types of pressure canners:

Presto 23-Quart Pressure Canner and Cooker

All American 21-1/2-Quart Pressure Cooker/Canner

Ernie recommends you get a canner with a weighted gauge–because it can be difficult to get dial gauges calibrated.

We go on to discuss botulism and the case of the Seattle man who improperly canned game.

Ernie mentions some sources for safe, tested recipes:

We conclude with answer to listener questions including:

Modifying recipes
The difference between pressure cookers and canners
Glass top and induction ranges and pressure canning
Canning salsas
Canning meats

You can follow Ernie’s company, Rancho La Merced Provisions on Facebook. Make sure to check out his beautiful glass fermenting vessels. And like the Master Food Preservers of Los Angeles County on Facebook.

If you want 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 iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additional music by Rho. A downloadable version of this podcast is here.

013 Keeping Chickens with Terry Golson of Hencam.com

Mr. Homegrown

August 20, 2014

Animals, Chickens, Podcasts

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Image: Hencam.com.

On the thirteenth episode of the Root Simple Podcast we talk to chicken expert and author Terry Golson. Terry fields chicken questions from all over the world through her blog hencam.com where, as the name implies, you can watch her hens live through the interwebs.

One of the main points Terry makes during the podcast is that chickens have not really been bred to live long and that they start to get health problems after two years of age. When I solicited questions for this podcast, sure enough, most of the questions were related to health. By the way, I think I managed to ask Terry all the questions–many thanks to the listeners and blog readers who sent them in.

During the interview Terry mentions:

Her blog post on why she does not go to a Vet to treat her chickens.
Keeping antibiotics on hand as well as other things you should have in your chicken first aid kit.
Terry’s “spa treatment” she uses to deal with egg binding.
Doing a chicken necropsy.
Why Terry doesn’t keep roosters.
Where to source chicks and pullets.
When and how to euthanize a sick chicken.
I mention free necropsies provided by the University of California Extension Service for California residents.
What Terry thinks about those rooster rings that supposedly keep roosters from crowing (hint: she doesn’t like them!).
Terry answers Root Simple podcast listener questions.
What to feed your chickens.
Corn and soy in feed.
A brief mention of Terry’s post on training animals.

If you want 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 iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additional music by Rho. A downloadable version of this podcast is here.

Pressure Canning Questions?

Mr. Homegrown

August 19, 2014

Podcasts

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Master Food Preserver and chef Ernest Miller will be our guest on a future episode of the Root Simple Podcast. I’m doing the interview this Friday and we’re going to talk about pressure canning. If you’ve got a pressure canning question please leave a comment on this post or call our podcast hotline at (213) 537-2591. Ernie is extremely knowledgeable and now is your chance to get those canning questions answered.

012 Damnation, Good Books and Listener Questions

Mr. Homegrown

August 13, 2014

Podcasts

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In this week’s episode, Kelly and Erik discuss the documentary Damnation, what we’re reading and answer a three part reader question about bread, weeds and fertilizer.

We briefly mention our experiment in house cleaning inspired by a post on Apartment Therapy.

Those damn dams!
Go to the Damnation Website to watch the documentary trailer and find links to where you watch the whole movie.

Via Youtube, a documentary on China’s massive Three Gorges dam.

I didn’t mention it during the podcast, but I used to work at the Center for Land Use Interpretation. The CLUI did a show on towns submerged by dam building projects called Immersed Remains.

What we are Reading
Kelly is reading The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv.

Erik is reading Psychomagic by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Listener Questions
We answer Gloria’s questions about making bread, weeds and fertilizer. Summary: get Josey Baker Bread, mulch and pee in your garden!

Your Chicken Questions Answered

Mr. Homegrown

August 12, 2014

Animals, Chickens, Podcasts

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Image: Hencam.com.

I’ll be interviewing poultry expert, author and HenCam.com blogger Terry Golson for the Root Simple Podcast this Thursday morning. If you have any chicken questions you’d like me to ask leave them in the comments for this post.

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