Our New Home Economics

...vegetable garden? Do you go fishing or hunting? Do you live in an apartment or small house with no yard? There’s not a one size fits all approach. But buckets full of stuff you eat on a regular basis works for almost everyone. In my own case this crisis has highlighted food related practices in my life that are useful and those that aren’t. Bread making? Useful. Vegetable gardening? Wish I had one right now. Avocado tree? Thankful that it has frui...

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Saturday Tweets: Toilet Hacks, Egg Laying Charts and Food Porn

...ember 31, 2014 Egg Laying Chart | HenCam http://t.co/Puem22mVJe via @terrygolson — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 How to make parking meters popular: @ACCESS_Magazine http://t.co/EkY7pd3FBu — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 Making Your Own Knives http://t.co/nAfBars2CA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 Our public affair with food porn | Anthropology in Practice, Scientific American Blog Network http://t.co/KpsixUoaqP...

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

...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 theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additi...

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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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