115 Inventing a New Word: Apisoir

...ell as the reasons he thinks we should support local honey. You heard it first on Root Simple! During the podcast Michael mentions: Rowan Jacobsen’s book American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields “Merroir“ Bee Local Honey Planet Bee You can reach Michael via his Facebook page and his email is [email protected]. Apisoir, apisoir, apisoir! If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (2...

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Perennial Vegetables

...out edible perennials until the publication of Eric Toensmeier’s excellent book, Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles . We’ve got a few of the species Toensmeier mentions: artichoke, prickly pear cactus, stinging nettles, crosnes (more on those in another post) and goji berries. Edible Perennials contains growing information for each species offering something for ev...

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Saturday Tweets: A Week of Strange Links

...y the year 2020 https://t.co/Si466o5Qde — Xeni (@xeni) March 31, 2016 This page of the 12th-c. Bible of Stephen Harding (now digitised by @BMDijonPat), is a real medieval comic book. pic.twitter.com/eOm5cFcDd9 — Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) March 31, 2016 #Netherlands sets guidance reducing #meat consumption to twice weekly https://t.co/F68kuFjikj @NatGeoFood @hdbyrne pic.twitter.com/pZ9nPJ8xEc — UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) March 30, 2016 An...

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126 The Wild Yards Project with David Newsom

...Begins at Home.” During the conversation David mentions: Douglas Tallamy’s book Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants and his talk. Film that features David’s backyard Wild Yards Project on Instagram Lisa Novick interview Essay on the Wild Yards Project website, “A Meadow Grows in West Gloucester“ Wild Yards Map Wild Yards Project newsletter (at bottom of page) Native plants for realtors The Gottlieb Native Garden:...

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