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Plant Vegetables!

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...s has me thinking that I need to walk back on one of my worst blog posts, “Homesteading Heresy: On Giving Up Vegetable Gardening,” in which I announced that I was no longer planting vegetables. While we have plenty of avocados and eggs it would be nice to have some greens other than volunteer nasturtium and nettles. I had two seasons of failed vegetable gardening but that should have prompted a redoubled effort rather than the defeatism that I off...

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Day to day, our decisions count

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Back to the Garden
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...door. Some CSAs go beyond veggies and fruits to provide meat, fish, milk, eggs, bread, flowers, etc. It takes some getting used to being in a CSA, because you don’t get much choice in what you’re given week to week, so you and your family need to have a spirit of adventure to go forward with it. CSAs and farmers’ markets teach you many things, including: The amazing flavor of food which is both fresh and in-season. You could live your whole life...

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076 Keeping Your Poultry Healthy with Dr. Maurice Pitesky

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Animals, Chickens, Podcasts
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...UC Davis poultry resource website, a backyard poultry census that you can take part in, and the UC Davis pastured poultry farm research project. We also discuss some simple measures you can take to keep your poultry free of disease as well as how to safely cook eggs and meat. 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 cansubscribe to our podcast in the iTune...

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Saturday Linkages: Collecting Seaweed, Microfarming and DIY Bike Lanes

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Saturday Linkages
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.../rHVqqzpdkA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 19, 2016 Do you put your #eggs in the fridge? It's controversial for some, but it's proven effective against #Salmonella: https://t.co/G2IgoBuG78 pic.twitter.com/BCATGNFEot — The Poultry Site (@thepoultrysite) November 14, 2016 This is the kind of language I hear from people who are getting on with the work to be done… https://t.co/JYXJZUHD0w — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 19, 2016 Yup...

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