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Cottage Food Operations Workshop Offered by UC Cooperative Extension

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Events, Food
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...ly for farmers of fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, and honey interested in making value-added products in home kitchens as Cottage Food Operations (CFOs). Workshop is open to everyone. What is a Cottage Food Operation? The California Homemade Food Act (AB1616) allows individuals to prepare and package certain non-potentially hazardous foods in private-home kitchens referred to as “Cottage Food Operations” (CFOs). Processed meat, dairy, fermented f...

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Tools for Conquering Internet Addiction

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Thoughtstylings
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...as Carr observed in his prescient 2008 article in the Atlantic, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” I’ve noticed that my attention span seems to be shrinking and that I’m less able to sit down and read books without the temptation to jump on the Internet and look stuff up. I’ve also noticed that I’m having a harder time initiating and completing the sort of gardening, cooking, food preservation and general DIY projects that provide fodder for this blog...

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Skyglow Raises Awareness of Light Pollution

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Thoughtstylings
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...is is one of those problems that would be relatively easy to fix simply by making sure that lighting is not directed upwards and by using bulbs that emit light on a limited portion of the spectrum. And we’ll save energy in the process. Unfortunately, as the Los Angeles Weekly recently reported, the City of Los Angeles has not done a good job with light pollution. If you’d like to contribute to Mehmedinovic and Heffernan’s project, their website is...

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Creating a Moon Garden

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Design, Gardening
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...t pollinators and other wildlife. Bornstein had a number of great tips for making a garden interesting at night: Consider color. White flowers, of course, will pop out under moonlight. But yellow flowers stand out even more. We’re lucky in Southern California to have a lot of native plants with silvery grey leaves (an evolutionary adaption of dry climate plants). Masses of silvery grey leaves stand out well at night. Include a contrasting backgrou...

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An Easy and Healthy 100% Whole Rye Bread Recipe

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Bread, Food
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...andreou from How to Make Bread Ingredients Day One Before going to bed mix: 150 grams/1 1/4 cups dark rye/pumpernickel flour 150 grams/scant 1/2 cup rye sourdough starter 200 grams/3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon cold water Let sit overnight at room temperature. Ingredients Day Two In the morning when you wake up mix in the dough from the previous night with: 200 grams/1 1/3 cups dark rye/pumpernickel flour 1 teaspoon salt 150 grams/2/3 cup hot water 1...

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