When Mushrooms Attack

September 7, 2023

...With the news that Amazon is flooded with dangerous, AI generated mushroom foraging books, this seems like the perfect time for this blog to point towards the Japanese kid’s show Ultraman Taro, specifically episode 31, “Danger! The Poisonous Mushroom of Lies”. The episode opens with a giant, ambulatory mushroom, named Mushra, destroying a Japanese city. Ultraman Taro, a sort of size-shifting superhero, defeats the monster but not without a release...

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047 Done is Better Than Perfect

Mr. Homegrown

May 20, 2015

Animals, Bees, Food, Gardening, Podcasts

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...view we discuss: Raised beds Hoop houses Crawl space vents for hoop houses Foraging for garlic mustard Bread Earth and Fire ebook Decluttering Beekeeping Honeybeesuite.com Mite treatment Keeping bees in the winter Mudsongs.org That Flow Hive thingy Bears! Birdhouses No-knead bread in a slow cooker Slow cooking and pressure cooking What to do with pallets If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send...

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067 Wild Drinks and Cocktails With Emily Han

Mr. Homegrown

November 4, 2015

Fermentation, Food, Food Preservation, Foraging, Podcasts

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...com. During the show we discuss the difference between “wildcrafting” and “foraging” and how you can use easily foraged herbs, fruits, pine needles and flowers to make shrubs, switchels, tonics and infusions. Emily also shares her easy distillation method and advice on what to do with all those prickly pear fruits! 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 c...

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Saturday Tweets: A Week of Strange Links

Mr. Homegrown

April 2, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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...Wild Food Spotlight: Salal Berries https://t.co/V2Xwqk5mev via @TheKitchn #foraging pic.twitter.com/WPVfBXwXVI — Emily Han (@misschiffonade) March 30, 2016 Bitcoin transactions could consume as much energy as Denmark by the year 2020 https://t.co/Si466o5Qde — Xeni (@xeni) March 31, 2016 This page of the 12th-c. Bible of Stephen Harding (now digitised by @BMDijonPat), is a real medieval comic book. pic.twitter.com/eOm5cFcDd9 — Damien Kempf (@Damien...

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Loquat season is here!

Mrs. Homegrown

April 28, 2014

Foraging, Fruit Trees

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...om place to place–which is reflected in the comments below. *** *Re: fruit foraging: I consider it fair/legal to snag fruit from street trees, those trees growing on the strip of public land between the street and the sidewalk, and fruit which overhangs the sidewalk. Now, of course, you don’t want to be a jerk about this–I pay attention to context, and won’t take fruit that people seem to be using, or which seems precious in any way. (Loquats I cl...

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