Saturday Tweets: 12 Hours in an Ikea, Bike Helmets, How to Fix Drywall and Much More

March 25, 2017

...https://t.co/GABfqllB2p — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 24, 2017 'My chickens saved my life' https://t.co/So8lOmUUW9 pic.twitter.com/PShnFdFVYh — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) March 25, 2017 Man dies after bathtub phone charger shock https://t.co/CCWej4oel4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 22, 2017 “Autonomous Cars Will Turn Back the Clock on Sustainable Cities” by @PABL0VALERIO https://t.co/nHCyQ1pV4P @Andreas_Egense #dktrp — K...

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Nature Fest this Weekend!

Mr. Homegrown

March 16, 2017

Events

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...Fest this weekend on Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 am to 5 pm. Root Simple will have a booth in which we’ll be selling copies of our rare and hard to find booklets, done in collaboration with the Ecology Center, on container gardening, rainwater harvesting, bicycle basics, backyard chickens and food preservation. They’ll be priced to fly out of those boxes in my garage! I’ll also be doing a coffee demo at 1pm on both Saturday and Sunday and dispen...

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085 Rishi Kumar: Abundance in Suburbia

Mr. Homegrown

May 18, 2016

Gardening, Permaculture, Podcasts

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...mini) Sheet mulching Growing fruit trees close togther Raccoons! Quail and chickens Water harvesting vs. rain barrels How the Growing Home became the Growing Club, Sarvodaya Farms and the Growing Commons. May 28th greywater workshop. Many thanks to our Patreon subscribers for making this podcast and blog possible. If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You...

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I picked a peck of pickled peaches

Mr. Homegrown

April 8, 2016

Food, Food Preservation, Fruit Trees, Gardening

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...ou don’t it will collapse of its own weight, like those industrial broiler chickens that can’t stand up if you let them live past the eating stage. But what to do with all those immature peaches? Yes, you can pickle them. This I learned from Kevin West’s bible of food preservation, Saving the Season. In the introduction to his pickled green almond recipe (p. 103) West notes that immature stone fruit such as peaches and nectarines can be pickled in...

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How to Remove Bees from a Wall

Mr. Homegrown

October 5, 2015

Animals, Bees

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...door are inside in case the hive gets really cranky. This includes putting chickens in their coop if there’s a flock nearby. I bring along an extra bee suit if the homeowner wants to watch. Always start with smoke Never skip this step–it’s easy to do when you’re excited and ready to go. Take a moment to smoke the hive and wait a minute before beginning work to give the bees time to calm down. I use burlap in my smoker because it smolders for a lon...

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