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Loquat season is here!

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Foraging, Fruit Trees
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...xperience. I usually rub the fuzz off the skin before eating, which, in my book, counts as washing. Beware the pits! Some trees have better fruit than others, so if you try a loquat and find it less than thrilling, try fruit from another tree. You may find a new favorite seasonal treat. ETA: Days after posting, I just got around to reading the Wikpedia entry on loquat. (ahem) Turns out there are over 800 cultivars of loquat, some of which are bred...

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An Ancient Quince Recipe

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Food, Food Preservation, Fruit Trees, Gardening
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...ch year I promise I’ll pick up a copy of Barbara Ghazarian’s comprehensive book Simply Quince , but somehow I never get around to it. Last year I tried to make quince jelly, but overshot the jell point and ended up with jars of delicious tasting, but disagreeably hard quince gum. And Kelly just threw out my burned membrillo from last year. This year Kevin West, author of Saving the Season came to the rescue with an ancient (the first known referen...

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Introducing the People Washer

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Water and Power
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...from the June 1977 issue of The Futurist, an excerpt from Stephen Rosen’s book Future Facts: The way things are going to work in the future of technology, science, medicine and life (available for a penny on Amazon!). Egg-shaped “People Washer” is an ultrasonic bath developed by the Sanyo Electric Company of Japan. The machine showers and bathes the body, cleans the skin, massages the muscles, and dries the person off. To take a bath, the bather...

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In Praise of the Hedgerow

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Gardening
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...d, provide habitat and don’t need a lot of maintenance. Combine these two resources with a third, Piet Oudolf’s magnificent ideas about plant design in his book Planting: A New Persepctive and I think we might just be able to save the world....

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024 Water, Wilding our Gardens and Sewing

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Domesticus, Gardening, Podcasts, Water and Power
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...ifornia’s Central Valley The UC Davis Arboretum Allstar list Piet Oudolf’s book Planting: A New Persepctive In the sewing portion of the podcast, Kelly talks about: Sew L.A. Second Skin: Choosing and Caring for Textiles and Clothing 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...

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