Saturday Tweets: Air Plants, Nutrition and Empathy

December 13, 2014

...LJf5wU #LoveMatters via @HuffPostRelig — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 10, 2014 Setting Aside a Scholarly Get-Together, for the Planet’s Sake http://t.co/Bdr97JGQKG — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 8, 2014 Curing a Nutella addict: http://t.co/FwmLbBpZxN — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 8, 2014 Los Angeles, City of Water http://t.co/SnFSfbZGxA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 8, 2014 Why we refrigerate eggs (and the rest of the wor...

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Dookie in the Tomatoes

Mr. Homegrown

June 11, 2008

Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening

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...es (read more on this theory at New Scientist). The same holds for washing eggs–bad idea. I count myself very fortunate to have a bit of land to grow some tomatoes and feel sorry for those who don’t have this luxury. I wish more journalists would spin this story as a reason to build more community gardens and allow apartment dwellers to grow some food on the roof. It leaves me eating that big juicy roma tomato, pictured above, with all the smugnes...

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How to Make Great Pizza in a Home Oven

Mr. Homegrown

December 4, 2014

Food

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Breakfast pizza with eggs and za’atar. Our cob oven makes great pizzas. Why? High temperatures. You just can’t make good pizza in a home oven. Or so I used to think. This weekend I invited some friends over for an outdoor pizza party but much needed rain put a wrinkle in those plans. I remembered that Josey Baker had some instructions in his book on how to make pizza in a home oven, so I decided to give it a try. I’m happy to report that it works...

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How You can Help Dragonflys

Mr. Homegrown

October 17, 2014

Animals

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Green Darners (Anax junius) laying eggs. © Dennis Paulson. Want to help dragonfly populations? The Migratory Dragonfly Project is a citizen science project you can participate in. All you need is a pond or wetland to visit and a computer. Participants monitor the timing, duration, and direction of travel of migrating dragonflies, and note any additional behaviors in a directed migratory flight such as feeding or mating. Photos or videos are stron...

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004 Egg Ethics, Solar Food Dryers and a Question about Earth Ovens

Mr. Homegrown

June 18, 2014

Animals, Chickens, Podcasts, Solar, Water and Power

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...our of the Root Simple Podcast Kelly and Erik discuss the tricky ethics of eggs and mayonnaise, what kind of solar food dryer is the best and we answer a question from Ed about earth ovens. Plans for the Appalachian Solar Food Dryer can be found in an article on Mother Earth News. We have a detailed post on how we built our adobe oven here. If you want to leave a question you can call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. The th...

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