020 Emily Green on the Mow and Blow Landscape Paradigm

October 8, 2014

...ing. 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 can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additional music by Rho. A downloadable version of this podcast is here....

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021 The Queen of Quince

Mr. Homegrown

October 15, 2014

Food, Food Preservation, Fruit Trees, Gardening, Podcasts

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022 Mark Stambler on How to Pass a Cottage Food Bill

Mr. Homegrown

October 22, 2014

Podcasts

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...com. 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 can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additional music by Rho. A downloadable version of this podcast is here....

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023 Cleaning, Spam Poetry and Shoemaking

Mr. Homegrown

October 29, 2014

Domesticus, Podcasts

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The Hugelkultur Question

Mr. Homegrown

November 17, 2014

Gardening, Permaculture

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...onents contend that the logs break down and become open fungal pathways to store water and nutrients. Kelly suggested we take an unused raised bed in our front yard and try an at-grade hugelkultur experiment (mounding in our dry climate seems like a bad idea, especially given our current drought). I balked at the amount of digging that would be involved. Kelly suggested that we should try it since we had little to lose and we’re supposed to be exp...

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