028 Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes

December 10, 2014

...l Homemakers Gender roles Her new book Homespun Mom Comes Unraveled Messes Making relationships work Perfectionism Home schooling Higher education Student debt Occupy Wall Street Reclaiming the holiday season Shannon’s sock knitting machine 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 m...

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2015 Resolutions

Mrs. Homegrown

January 1, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...k?) Erik’s 2014 resolutions: 1) Finish hardscaping the backyard, grow more vegetables. Sort of a fail here. Some work was done but there’s more to do. In the last hours of 2014 I did manage to finish a cool hexagonal deck by the chicken coop. 2) Perfect a 100% whole grain sourdough bread Success! I can make a reliably good whole grain boule. Now I’ve got to write up the recipe! 3) Take a class —which involves a a trip Nope, unless going to the Hei...

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Saturday Tweets: Toilet Hacks, Egg Laying Charts and Food Porn

Mr. Homegrown

January 3, 2015

Saturday Linkages

...ember 31, 2014 Egg Laying Chart | HenCam http://t.co/Puem22mVJe via @terrygolson — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 How to make parking meters popular: @ACCESS_Magazine http://t.co/EkY7pd3FBu — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 Making Your Own Knives http://t.co/nAfBars2CA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 Our public affair with food porn | Anthropology in Practice, Scientific American Blog Network http://t.co/KpsixUoaqP...

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033 A GMO-Free Los Angeles with Joanne Poyourow

Mr. Homegrown

January 14, 2015

Podcasts

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...GMOs Info for Grassroots campaign organizers Where to find Safe Seeds How to assure your garden is GMO-Free YES Magazine’s summary of the United Nations’ evolving policy toward agriculture L.A. Times article on the power of lobbyists Joanne’s blog can be found at www.Change-Making.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...

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Everything Must Go Part 4: How to Fold Your Clothes

Mrs. Homegrown

January 15, 2015

Cleaning, Domesticus, Tidying up

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...may seem a little extreme, but this simple change in behavior seems to be making all the difference in our dresser drawers. Very simply, KonMari politely insists (while flicking her pink glitter cat o’ nine tails) that we shape our all of our foldables into neat rectangular packets and stand them cheek-by-jowl in our drawers, rather like file folders in a standing file. As someone who has always folded clothes into squarish shapes and stacked the...

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