Camping and Solar Cooking

...g. With the carrying capacity of the cargo bike, we can get fancy with the food and libations, allowing us to skip the usual dehydrated camping chow. These sittin’ around type of trips, or even a lazy Sunday afternoon at home, are the perfect occasion to deploy a solar cooker. Best of all you can build a solar cooker yourself for pennies out of cardboard and aluminum foil. For some foods, such as rice, it’s actually easier to cook with a solar coo...

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Bugs Ate My Garden

...tter from one of our readers: “I just read the article on growing your own food. I have tried this but have had great difficulty with insect damage. I have tried some of the “natural” insecticides but they don’t seem to work very well. Two of the major problems I have are cutworms that snip off seedlings before they can get started, and a plague of small white snails which invade later in summer and devastate everything. I cannot use chemical pest...

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Saturday Tweets: A Wacky Week

...//t.co/lFNgzheylY — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 13, 2016 Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests https://t.co/sC98D5n4XW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 13, 2016 Drones to unleash vaccine-laced M&Ms in bid to save endangered ferrets https://t.co/3qgoli6bFq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 12, 2016 Smokey was wrong. You can’t prevent wildfires, and you shouldn’t try. https://t.co/q0xRSrFqtF via @grist — Root Simple (@r...

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