SIPS and Kraut at Project Butterfly

...ry, DIY cleaning products and beer making — all outlined with a sense of play and fun. —Whole Life Times “…a delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and other useful skills for anyone interested in taking a more active role in growing and preparing the food they eat.” -Boingboing.net...

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Black Friday Book Suggestions

...Baudar. Pascal and his partner Mia Wasilevich are rock stars of the local foraging scene. What they do with foraged ingredients is breathtaking. I can’t wait to see this book. (Erik) Save the Bees with Natural Backyard Hives: The Easy and Treatment-Free Way to Attract and Keep Healthy Bees by Rob and Chelsea McFarland. Rob and Chelsea are the dynamic founders of Honeylove.org and are responsible for getting beekeeping legalized in Los Angeles. Th...

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Weekend Linkages: AI Mushroom Books, Sandwiches and Mystery Totem Poles

...‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled Tennessee woman sets record for world’s longest female mullet Mystery totem pole appears on coastal path in south-east England Sandwiches of Histsory...

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Top Six California Native Plant Performers

...nse and both honeybees and native bees love it. There’s a lot of unethical foraging going on in our local wilderness areas to supply the Silver Lake shamans with their white sage smudge sticks. Grow white sage in your yard and you can roll your own smudge sticks. You can also put a leaf in your water bottle for a refreshing drink. Each fall it should be pruned back to avoid legginess. 2. Cleveland Sage (Salvia clevelandii) This one is becoming as...

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Saturday Tweets: Working Dogs and Expensive Raccoon Meat

...ple) February 14, 2015 Horticulturist Nance Klehm plans to show the way on foraging http://t.co/nlGOV58WAi — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 14, 2015 Glyphosate residues in honey: http://t.co/76fByWBzuy — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 12, 2015 The Idler | Online Course: How to Dress – A Guide for the Modern Gentleman with Gustav Temple http://t.co/RAWWiNlkio via @sharethis — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 12, 2015 What to do in the gar...

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