Broadleaf Plantain

...e weeds into our garden, planting some broadleaf plantain (Plantago major) seeds that we collected on our bike camping and wild food excursion with Christopher Nyerges. As Nyerges noted, this is one of those plants that Martha Stewart hates, and that makes the purveyors of toxic herbicides and lawn care products rich. You can’t eat your lawn folks. You can, however, eat broadleaf plantain. The young leaves are edible raw, but the more mature leave...

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My Big Fat Greek Squash

...ry time I visit my mom, her Greek neighbor pops over the fence to offer me seeds and plants. He visits Greece each summer and comes back with seeds for plants whose names he can’t translate into English. As a result I always have a few mystery Greek vegetables growing in the garden. This spring he gave me a squash seedling he had propagated. It grew into a massive vine and produced two winter squashes whose weight exceeded the capacity of my kitch...

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Saturday Linkages: Passive Cooling, Cats and Three Mules

...film, BIKES vs CARS – WE ARE MANY on @Kickstarter http://kck.st/1f7i1Xj @homedepot @lowes: 2/3 of our food crops need bees! Stop selling bee-killing pesticides! #BeeAction @foe_us http://www.beeaction.org Your Future in Farming & Homesteading: FREE 3-Day Webcast Event! (Oct. 1-3, 2013) http://permaculturenews.org/2013/09/25/your-future-in-farming-homesteading-free-3-day-webcast-event/ … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Fol...

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Saturday Tweets: Subterranean Heating Systems, Achocha, Tree Beekeeping and Valentine’s Day Cocktails

.../t.co/jK3ool5vs3 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 How long do seeds stay viable? Are those seeds still good? Find out here – #gardenchat https://t.co/ol3rCAs534 pic.twitter.com/TXEo76rE7u — Teresa O’Connor (@SeasonalWisdom) February 5, 2017 Up-cycled license plate coat racks: https://t.co/jNApyrMsLE — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 On not becoming a tool of a digital tool: https://t.co/0321Pm54jn — Root Simple (@rootsimpl...

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Josey Baker’s Awesome Adventure Bread (gluten free!)

...uten, he’d make something entirely different. It works. It’s made of nuts, seeds and oats, moistened with oil and water and held together with chia and psyillium husks… [Psyllium what? We’d never used psyllium seed husks before, but they are apparently used in gluten free baking to help bind ingredients–like chia, they are mucilaginous. We found them in the dietary supplement section of Whole Foods, for what it’s worth. Be sure to get the husks, n...

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