How to Deal With the Dreaded Pantry Moth

...eezer you can put dry goods in there and kill any larvae. Avoid adding new food to old food, if possible. If you’ve got an outbreak UC Davis suggests pulling everything out and inspecting what you’ve got for the telltale signs of infestation: larvae or webbing. Get our you vacuum and suck out the larvae that hide in cracks in your cabinets. These bugs can survive for months without food. Wash cabinets with soap and water. Freeze stuff you’re in do...

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Home Orchards for Year Round Food Resiliency

...a downloadable version) can be used as a guide to planting for year round food resiliency. Results may vary. Due to a high squirrel population stone fruit doesn’t work well in our yard. But at least I have avocados and the olives I started curing back in October are now ready to eat. In August we’ll have figs and in September more pomegranates than we could possible eat. If the squirrels don’t take them all we might have some apples too. This cha...

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Fermentology: Mini Seminars About Cultured Food

...verage, some shorter, some a little longer) for anyone hungry to engage in food, culture, history and science–but in the context of what you have at home. This project is sponsored by the Department of Applied Ecology at NC State University, the NC State University Libraries and the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics at the University of Copenhagen. All talks are Thursday at 4 pm EST, unless otherwise specified. All talks are virtual and will be...

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Saturday Linkages: Cat Memes, Food Allergies and a Monteverdi Drop

...How a cat named Smudge’s distaste for salad created one of 2019’s most popular memes Why the world is becoming more allergic to food No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore ‘Like sending bees to war’: the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession DIY Rolling Umbrella Base A 27-year-old Costco fan loves the store so much he got a logo tattooed and had a birthday party in the food court Music break: Lamento della Ninfa by Claudio Monteverdi...

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