Saturday Linkages: Fueling Up

...made-briquettes-and-logs/ … Thoughtstylings Mark Bittman: A Simple Fix for Farming http://nyti.ms/VjNlZb Fueling up: http://we2our2.blogspot.com/2012/10/fueling-up.html … Health The Island Where People Forget to Die http://nyti.ms/S3Mitk Bikes Nice graphic showing why taking the lane is a good idea. http://ow.ly/eIgHH (via Commute Orlando) From the Root Simple Archive Appletastic Apple Cake https://www.rootsimple.com/2010/12/applet For these links...

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Permaculture Design Course at the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano

...: Each weekend will focus on a different theme and associated topics. MARCH 29 / INTRO TO PERMACULTURE – Design philosophy, ethics, basic principles, site observation, zones, and sector analysis, climate, seasonal weather, micro-climates, site observation of The Ecology Center, zone 1 design exercise and more… MARCH 30 / ECOLOGICAL DESIGN – Intro to design process, elements of design, presentation graphics, interview, site analysis, group brainsto...

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Bitter Greens

...a, a green that America has suddenly discovered after last month’s factory farming spinach nightmare. We also added a tough and bitter leaf chicory from our friends at Grow Italian. Hopefully, by succession planting we should have a winter and spring full of green, if somewhat bitter vegetables. How do we prepare these bitter greens around the compound? Very simply — in a pan with garlic, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Sometimes we add some Parmigia...

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080 Lessons From the Theodore Payne 2016 Garden Tour

...lists on why some residential drought measures are shortsighted. A blog post we did on the 2016 Theodore Payne Garden tour. Pictures of the gardens on the Theodore Payne tour. The new Hahamongna Cooperative Nursery and Hahamongna Cooperative Nursery Facebook page. 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...

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Saturday Tweets: A Week of Strange Links

...y 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 (@DamienKempf) March 31, 2016 #Netherlands sets guidance reducing #meat consumption to twice weekly https://t.co/F68kuFjikj @NatGeoFood @hdbyrne pic.twitter.com/pZ9nPJ8xEc — UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) March 30, 2016 An...

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