Podcasts about root simple

Erik from Root Simple joins me to talk about saving you DVD collection, hacking a DIY steampunk music player and dovetail joints. See Erik at https://www.rootsimple.com/ Start your Amazon shopping using our affiliate link: https://amazon.com/shop/gardenfork Get My Email Newsletter: https://www.gardenfork.tv/email/ My Stationary Bike https://amzn.to/3z0XQFN GardenFork receives compensation when you use our affiliate links. This is how we pay the bills ;) GF Sweaters and T Shirts https://teespring.com/stores/gardenfork-2 Email me: radio@gardenfork.tv Watch us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/gardenfork Music used on the podcast is licensed by AudioBlocks and Unique Tracks ©2023 GardenFork Media LLC All Rights Reserved GardenFork Radio is produced in Brooklyn, NY

What Fun! Erik from Root Simple joins Nicole and I. I realize now how long its been since I last talked to Erik. He makes Stickley style furniture in his garage woodshop with a friend of his. Plus he made a bee vacuum for removing bees and swarms from backyards.  Erik's Bee vacuum: https://www.rootsimple.com/2023/06/i-made-a-bee-vacuum/  Start your Amazon shopping using our affiliate link: https://amazon.com/shop/gardenfork Get My Email Newsletter: https://www.gardenfork.tv/email/ My Stationary Bike https://amzn.to/3z0XQFN HASfit Exercise YouTube channel is my fav https://www.youtube.com/hasfit GardenFork receives compensation when you use our affiliate links. This is how we pay the bills ;) GF Sweaters and T Shirts https://teespring.com/stores/gardenfork-2 Email me: radio@gardenfork.tv Watch us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/gardenfork ©2023 GardenFork Media LLC All Rights Reserved GardenFork Radio is produced in Brooklyn, NY

Erik from the website and podcast Root Simple joins me to talk about teaching classes, roasting coffee, and ordering books locally. Hear me on Erik's podcast: https://www.rootsimple.com/2020/07/138-erics-gone-wild/ The post Erik wrote that inspired this talk: https://www.rootsimple.com/2020/06/the-new-homemade-kitchen/ Eric's favorite tools: https://amzn.to/2XxApUp Get My GardenFork Email Newsletter: https://www.gardenfork.tv/sign-up-for-our-email-newsletter/ Support GardenFork, become a monthly supporter on Patreon: http://patreon.com/gardenfork GF Sweaters and T Shirts https://teespring.com/stores/gardenfork-2 Email me: radio@gardenfork.tv Watch us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/gardenfork GardenFork’s Facebook Discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1692616594342396/

On episode 138 of the Root Simple podcast we brain dump with Eric Rochow, a.k.a. “East Coast Eric” of Garden Fork TV about concrete work, bears in the garden, plywood boat building and storm windows. Eric has been a frequent guest on the Root Simple Podcast and is back to fill us in on what […]

Johnny Sanphillippo of the blog Granola Shotgun dropped by the Root Simple podcast today to talk about a lifestyle that’s proving useful in our troubled times. I decided to put this podcast out quickly so please excuse the less than ideal audio on my end. During our conversation we discuss Johnny’s most recent blog post, […]

On this 136th episode of the Root Simple podcast we talk to author and gardening expert Robert Pavlis about how to improve your soil, how to start seedlings in the winter, how to take care of houseplants and much more. Robert Pavlis lives on 6 acres of land that he has developed into a large […]

Root Simple reader Pat just informed me of the passing of Larry Korn, who was a guest on our podcast in October of 2015. Larry was probably best known as the translator of Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution but that underestimates what he did in his life. Larry, almost single highhandedly, is responsible for bringing […]

Every autumn, we owe a debt of gratitude to our trees.   They give our gardens the best gift: leaves.   Over the past decade, there's been a resurgence of interest in the restorative power of leaves in the garden. For some gardeners, this is new news. Yet, we've known about the wonderful contributions of leaves in the garden for a long time.   As proof, here's a little post from the The York Daily  out of York Pennsylvania on October 23, 1879:   "Fallen leaves make excellent compost for the garden."   And, theSunday News out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania from November 16, 1952, wrote this:   "Many city gardeners and suburban farmers... now realize the value of leaves as fertilizer and mulching material and are glad to take the leaves off the Street Departments hands...      This helps solve the problem of what to do with the fallen leaves, but it doesn't help the raking aches."       Brevities #OTD   Today is the birthday of the English watercolorist and founding advocate of the picturesque landscape, William Gilpin, who was born on this day in 1762. As an early headmaster and vicar of the Cheam School, Gilpin taught vegetable, as well as ornamental, gardening to the students. In 1777, Gilpin became the parson at the Boldre church of St. John the Baptist in the New Forest district of Hampshire. The church dates back to the 11th century. Gilpin was a fount of knowledge about the area surrounding Boldre Church and its flora and fauna. Gilpin served as the Boldre church parson until his death in 1804 at the age of 80. Gilpin is buried, alongside his wife, in the church cemetery beside an old maple tree. His inscription reads: "It will be a new joy to meet several of their good neighbors who now lie scattered in these sacred precincts around them."   Gilpin would travel around the English countryside, creating beautiful watercolors of the landscape and keeping journals where he refined his thoughts on the picturesque landscape . Gilpin filled his sketchbooks with drawings and observations on landscapes and how to paint them. Gilpin wrote, "In order to color chastely and harmoniously, use only 3 tints: red, yellow, and blue..."   Gilpin's accounts of his travels were published in guidebooks and created popular interest in natural beauty and the picturesque landscape.  Gilpin's bestselling book, "Observations on the River Wye: And Several Parts of South Wales, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty: Made in the Summer of the year 1770"  (often referred to as the River Wye guidebook),  brought scads of tourists to the area during the 18th century. Gilpin wrote: "Every distant horizon promises something new; and with this pleasing expectation we follow nature through all her walks."   During his time, Gilpin was an arbiter of artistic taste, and he thought that artists should try to find the most "picturesque" view of a landscape. Gilpin didn't enjoy artificial creations and lines in the garden. He was a fan of more natural-looking landscapes that were often  savage and less domesticated. To Gilpin, the best landscapes offered ruins and mountains along with trees. Gilpin's watercolors were created on site and he wasn't opposed to using a little artistic license to make the scene more compelling; adding a little bridge or tree or making a ruin ever more ruinous. In 1786, Gilpin wrote, "A ruin is a sacred thing. Rooted for ages in the soil; assimilated to it; and become, as it were, a part of it ..."    A simple way to remember the picturesque style, is to remember that Gilpin was a painter and he was seeing the landscape with “a painter’s eye”. The picturesque was a view that was worthy of being painted and Gilpin said it was "that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture." The bottom line is that the images were designed to get your attention.  Gilpin wrote: "Our eyes are only glass windows; we see with our imagination."   Gilpin was the first president of The Royal Watercolor Society and he is remembered for his books including one of his most popular called "Forest Scenery" which included 45 watercolors and descriptions of trees and shrubs;  and instructions for how to capture a picturesque effect through the clumping of trees. Gilpin adored trees. He wrote:  "It is no exaggerated praise to call a tree the grandest and most beautiful of all productions on earth!"   For instance, the "roan-tree" was noted for having "glowing berries". Rowan was the common name for the Mountain Ash, also known as "the witch" or "quickening-tree". The origin of the word rowan comes from a german word meaning "to redden" and it refers to the little,  red berries. On the other hand, Gilpin was not a fan of the Hawthorn, writing that it had , "little claim to picturesque beauty... It is but a poor appendage. Its shape is bad. It does not taper and point like the Holly, but is rather a matted, round, heavy bush. Its fragrance indeed is great ; but its bloom, which is the source of that fragrance, is spread over it in too much profusion."  In 1832, Gilpin published Practical Hints upon Landscape Gardening: with some remarks on Domestic Architecture, as connected with scenery,which ran to a second edition in 1835. He wrote it because he said he felt there was little "practical information" in the books available at the time. One of my favorite parts of the book is where he discusses how to get a client to support ideas for their Landscape.   "It has ever appeared to me, that a very essential part of an improver's duty is to explain to the proprietor the principles upon which he suggests any plan of improvement. This, during the progress of the work, not only enhances the pleasure of the proprietor, and assists his general taste, but it also ensures his future care, through the periodical prunings and thinnings which must of necessity take place."   Gilpin encouraged landscapers, (he referred to them as improvers), to educate their clients, to overcome objections and prejudices. To Gilpin's view, educating customers was sufficient; once they understood the general design, they would surely come around.  More quotes from Gilpin:   "The picturesque eye, in quest of beauty, finds it in almost every incident." "The pleasures of the chase are universal. A hare started before dogs is enough to set the whole country in an uproar."           #OTD  On this day in 1777, Caspar Wistar treated the wounded during the battle of Germantown and decided he would pursue  medical training. Wistar ("Wiss-Star")is the names     of The Wistar Institute; the nation's first independent biomedical research center. Today, they focus on cancer, infectious disease & vaccine research to benefit human health. The botanist Thomas Nuttall gave the name Wisteria to the genus in honor of Caspar Wistar. Some people pronounce it "Wis-star-ia" to reflect the proper spelling of Casper Wistar's last name.       #OTD   Today is the birthday of the Master Collector of Botanists, John Hendley Barnhart who was born on this day in 1871. Barnhart was an American botanist who specialized in the biographies of other botanists. Like many botanists, Barnhart came to botany through medicine. After training to be a doctor, he never practiced medicine and instead turned his full-time attention to botany. Barnhart is remembered for his work at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) where he served as the Bibliographer of the Garden from 1913 to 1942. An amateur genealogist, his famous biographical index of botanists included over 20,000 cards. Barnhart's strength was Input; he collected vast amounts of information, stored it, and retrieved it for experts when called upon. His obituary stated that scientists all over the world leveraged Barnhart for their research. An article featured in The Nebraska State Journal from December 12, 1919 had a fascinating headline, "Famous Botanists Who Never Breathed". "Dr. Barnhart declares that the subjects of eleven biographical sketches of botanists in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American biography are figments; that their births, their names, their voyages, their scientific adventures and their numerous books, so solemnly given by title and number of volumes, existed only in the mind of some falsifier of the human record. For instance, an Alexander Daniel Koehler, who, inspired by Humboldt, came to America, lived for seven years at Santa Fe, explored South America and wrote, among many other works, "Flora Brasiliensis," published in four volumes in Berlin in 1821-23."  Barnhart believed that the eleven fake botanist biographies were the work of one person... but we don't know who or why they did it.   The was another fun newspaper account of Barnhart. This one was from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle   from April 27, 1934. It gave an account of a lecture by Barnhart on the wild flowers of North America. He said, "... buttercups and bright red columbines that once covered the countryside are in increasing danger of extinction as a result of the depredations of motorists. The only flowers free from danger are those which, like water lilies and marigolds, are naturally difficult of access. The purplish-white blossoms of mountain laurel are generally conceded to be the loveliest of North American wild flowers. Drosera, (commonly known as the sundews) the only carnivorous Northern flower, that trips and devours tiny insects by means of sticky, porous leaves, is a demure, deceptive yellow blossom. The coy trillium and the strange, bloated pitcher flower are among the curiosities of this part of the world, while the airy white flower genially named Dutchmen's breeches looks the most nonchalant. Certain flower names, like those of the rose and the lily, have come down to us almost unchanged since ancient times, and are practically similar in all European languages."           Unearthed Words   "Come said the wind to  the leaves one day,  Come o're the meadows  and we will play.  Put on your dresses  scarlet and gold,  For summer is gone  and the days grow cold." - A Children's Song of the 1880's     "Trees enrich our lives throughout the year. They reassure us with the rustle of their leaves, give us shade to soothe our overheated bodies and they bring delight to us when we watch birds nest in their boughs. However, it is only during the fall that they wave flamboyant foliage that seems to demand our attention." - Blue Ridge Parkway: A Guide to Trees         Today's book recommendation: The Urban Homestead by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen The 2010 book is the updated version of the best-selling classic. It features a dozen new projects. The New York Times said this book was the "contemporary bible" on Urban Homesteading. This book is an excellent resource. It's an idea book and  that gives you the tools to get started on path to self-sufficiency. It offers fantastic examples of how, no matter the size of your space, you can support yourself and your family in an environmentally-responsible way. The authors, Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen, are creators of the blog Root Simple, a green living and self-reliance resource for homesteaders, urban and otherwise. They live in Los Angeles.         Today's Garden Chore Thoroughly wash and inspect your houseplants before bringing them back indoors.  My houseplants get a nice spa day in the kitchen sink when they come back inside for the winter. First, they get a little time to acclimate to the temperature inside before they get their turn at the sink. Then I wash the leaves with sharp streams water and a little dawn dish soap. And don't forget about the bottom and sides of the pot; no need to track in extra dirt or insects.           Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart   Today's show started with a little Monologue about leaves, and I thought I'd share this adorable little advertisement from WC Landon and Companyin the Rutland Daily Herald out of Vermont From September 27, 1927:   Whether You Save Your Leaves for excellent cover for garden and lawn or whether you burn them you need a good rake to get them together. Here are four different kinds, all good The Japanese Sweep Rake, light and handy, but not for heavy work.......$1.00 The Wood Lawn Rake with 24 teeth, for heavy work .......$1.00 The Hoover Wire Lawn Rake is much favored at ....... 75c The Brume Rake with flat steel teeth, shaped like the Japanese Sweep, priced at .......$1.00   So, there you go. That's a sweet, little summary of Rake options in Vermont in 1927.       Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Erik from the urban homesteading website & podcast Root Simple joins me to talk about beginning furniture making, how he started, organized his workshop, learned woodworking, uses SketchUp and now makes Stickley American Craftsman style furniture. wow. Erik and Kelley's website: https://www.rootsimple.com/ Get My GardenFork Email Newsletter: https://www.gardenfork.tv/sign-up-for-our-email-newsletter/ Info we talk about in the show https://www.communitywoodshopla.com/ (where Erik took classes) https://www.finewoodworking.com/ https://lostartpress.com/ especially the blog: https://blog.lostartpress.com/   The Book of plans Erik has used for his furniture https://amzn.to/2mtQfPx Morris chair: https://www.rootsimple.com/2019/09/my-new-thoughtstyling-throne/ Taboret: https://www.rootsimple.com/2018/03/stickleys-603-taboret/ Dresser: https://www.rootsimple.com/2018/10/i-built-a-harvey-ellis-dresser-and-it-almost-killed-me/ Bookshelf: https://www.rootsimple.com/2018/12/the-700-bookshelf/ Weird Voysey chair: https://www.rootsimple.com/2019/07/seat-weaving-for-fun-and-profit/ Check out the GardenFork Amazon Shop: http://amazon.com/shop/gardenfork     Amazon links are affiliate links Support GardenFork, become a monthly supporter on Patreon: http://patreon.com/gardenfork   Watch us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/gardenfork

On this 133rd episode of the Root Simple podcast Kelly and I talk to Akiva Silver of Twisted Tree Farm, described in his author bio as a “homestead, nut orchard and nursery located in Spencer, New York where he grows around 20,000 trees a year using practices that go beyond organic.” Akiva’s background is in […]

The Exec Prod's secret fishing hole? A note from Radio Mike about his thank you email sent to a teacher. Check out the GardenFork Amazon Shop: http://amazon.com/shop/gardenfork Support GardenFork, become a monthly supporter on Patreon: http://patreon.com/gardenfork Really cool Apollo photos on Flickr:  https://www.flickr.com/people/projectapolloarchive/ Root Simple article about cool old catalogs  https://www.rootsimple.com/2018/07/the-amazing-online-building-technology-heritage-library/   The Really Cool Tool Catalog Archive https://archive.org/details/buildingtechnologyheritagelibrary Get our email newsletter, sign up: http://gardenfork.tv/news A good BBC podcast: Crowd Science: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04d42rc/episodes/downloads Watch us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/gardenfork GardenFork’s Facebook Discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1692616594342396/ Visit our website, http://gardenfork.tv

Will of the Weekend Homestead returns to the Root Simple podcast to talk about how to get into beekeeping without busting the bank, fireworks, rigging up a simple solar power system and extending your wi-fi. During the podcast we discuss: Inexpensive beekeeping. Fireworks. Will’s small solar system. Will on the Garden Fork Podcast discussing his […]

Christy “Garden Nerd” Wilhelmi dropped by the Root Simple compound to talk to Kelly and I about everything from loquats to bees to climate change. You can find her blog posts, podcast, YouTube at Gardenerd.com. She is the author of two books, Gardening for Geeks: DIY Tests, Gadgets, and Techniques That Utilize Microbiology, Mathematics, and […]

Sara Schnadt is our guest this week! Los Angeles in the house! Sara, Taylor and Rob talk about tackling things we don't want to tackle. We also chat about collaborating with non-artists and merging the work-life with the art-life. Mirrors are pretty cool, even in the 21st Century. It seems Colonel Sanders had a proclivity for the pistols. We also fit Daredevil and Systems Engineering into the conversation... somehow! Taylor decides he should really get his archive situation in order before entropy wins the battle. Sara shares the thinking and re-thinking she's been doing on her art practice after multiple moves, life changes and health hurdles. Rob spends two weeks creating a new sandbox for himself and decides he needs more road trash and hot pink in his work. WARNING: The phrase "mood boards" was used more than once during the recording of this episode. Also, it is our 20th episode! Thanks to all our previous guests! You can hear a brief update from Meghan Trainor, Huong Ngo, Dan Bustillo, Federico Tobon, Matt Steinke, Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen (the Root Simple posse!), Violet Juno and Ranjit Bhatnagar on this episode! Check out our project photos, videos and more at http://projects.opposablepodcast.com Thanks to Nik, Luke and Kelly (http://kellymariemartin.com)! They're our top Patreon supporters! And props to Mike and Jen as well! Ya'll are great too! Join 'em at: https://www.patreon.com/opposablethumbs Special Guest: Sara Schnadt.

Erik from Root Simple tells how he finds and uses all sorts of cool stuff that is available from your local library, either in person or using their digital tools. To find Public Domain books like Moby Dick, do a Google Books search Craftsman Magazine by Gustav Stickley is available several places: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=browse&scope=DLDecArts.HomeDesign https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000060729 https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=The+Craftsman+Magazine Ask your local library about what electronic resources they offer RB Digital is one tool Lynda.com, a great site of video tutorials is available through many libraries. Hoopla is an audiobook app libraries offer. PDF books blurb.com makes a PDF Erik has built a trellis around his beehives https://www.rootsimple.com/2017/11/bee-trellis/ And reglazed a window https://www.rootsimple.com/2017/10/how-to-apply-window-glazing-putty/ Use our Amazon link and support GardenFork, it does not affect the prices you pay: http://amzn.to/2zpkk5i Support GardenFork, become a monthly supporter on Patreon: http://patreon.com/gardenfork , or via PayPal. Get our email newsletter, sign up here! Watch us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/gardenfork GardenFork’s Facebook Discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1692616594342396/ Visit our website, http://gardenfork.tv

As we hurtle toward a world of digital jobs and automated consumerism (hello, Instacart and Amazon Dash), we urbanites who long for a deeper connection to the natural world, to our food sources and to do something real with our own two hands that doesn’t involve the pushing of a button, often think the lifestyle choice has to be either-or: Either we sock those dreams away in the “one day” file and surrender to the economic leviathan of modern city life, or we leave the city (and our livelihoods) behind to pioneer a homestead somewhere out in the country. But seven years ago, Root Simple founders Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne delivered us an alternate path forward with the release of their bestselling book The Urban Homestead and seminal follow-up, Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World. From their hilltop bungalow set on 1/12 acre in Eastside Los Angeles, the pair sparked a DIY revolution -- bringing permaculture front yards, backyard chickens, wild-fermented beer and home-constructed milk crate dry toilets forever into the (almost) mainstream.I’ve been following Erik and Kelly’s work here in LA for nearly a decade now, and was excited to have the opportunity to check in with Erik to hear how far he and Kelly have progressed on the path toward self-reliance, since the book’s release. But as so often happens in these interviews, what transpired turned out to be a much different conversation than the one I had anticipated. Erik and Kelly have faced some serious life circumstances in the past year, and as a result Erik came to our talk with some new truths to reveal about the realities of running an “urban homestead,” the fool’s errand of self-sufficiency, and the real importance of community.

Rick joins Eric to talk about astonishment, and sharing it, inspired by this post on the Root Simple blog.  https://www.rootsimple.com/2014/11/three-lessons-about-life/ Podcast on bread, our savior or downfall CBC Big Ideas http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/bread-salvation-or-damnation-1.4068017 99 percent invisible merge sign https://99percentinvisible.org/article/lane-ends-merge-left-redesigning-w4-2-road-sign-end-confusion/ Rewiring old house and finding AC and DC wiring Rick buys a generator, we talk transfer switches and generator interlocks. Time to plant your garlic, Eric likes seed garlic from Filaree Farm DIY chalkboard made with contact paper film http://www.gardenfork.tv/simple-diy-chalkboard-pallet-wood-frame-gf-video/ Homemade chalkboard paint on Root Simple https://www.rootsimple.com/2016/06/the-root-simple-workshop/ Rick is now making yogurt, having better cultures for health yogurt starters, GF interview with Sandor Katz ( I have to find the file, its lost somewhere!) yYou can make yogurt in an instant pot pressure cooker, eric will have to do a video. ProBlogger podcast Darren Rouse is great Eric likes the True crime podcast Up and Vanished transom.org is a great resource for how to make podcast

Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne of the Root Simple publishing empire are our guests this week! Los Angeles in tha house! We talk about targets, tape delay, adobe mud, knolling, sous-vide, puppies and the secrets contained in Lower Level 2. Rob is surrounded by tall people. Hello Macedonia! Thanks for Listening! Erik and Kelly concoct suborbital weed bombs. Yep. You read that right. Suborbital. Weed. Bombs. Taylor pushes us one step closer to the inevitable Internet of Poems. Rob gets inspired by additivism and tries to 3D print a thing. Check out our project photos, videos and more at http://projects.opposablepodcast.com Thanks to Nik, Luke and Kelly http://kellymariemartin.com/! They're our top Patreon supporters! And props to Mike and Jen as well! Ya'll are great too! Join 'em at: https://www.patreon.com/opposablethumbs Special Guest: Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne.

Between Kelly’s aortic dissection and my mom’s passing it’s been a difficult few months here at Root Simple. Eric Rochow of Garden Fork noticed that I haven’t put out a podcast episode in a long time and offered to interview me. So, on episode 101, you’ll hear Eric interviewing Erik about Root Simple, our books […]

Listen to “100 Eric Rochow on Maple Tapping, Welding and Cast Iron” on Spreaker. On this, the 100th episode of the Root Simple podcast we talk with Garden Fork impresario Eric Rochow about his adventures in maple syrup making, learning how to weld and the controversial topic of maintaining cast iron. During the show we […]

Kelly and Erik discuss some of the unusual sounds heard around the Root Simple compound: chickens, cats, bees and, yes, Kaiser Permanente’s music on hold. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the […]

On this week’s episode of the Root Simple podcast we talk with Nance Klehm about The Ground Rules. Nance’s project gathers waste from restaurants and institutions in Chicago, composts that waste and then uses the resulting compost along with mushrooms and plants to bioremediate damaged urban soils. Nance describes The Ground Rules as “re-imagining waste […]

This week Erik Knuzten, co-author of Urban Homestead:Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World joins us with a list of must have tools for self-sufficient, DIY home living. Check out Erik’s identically named website and podcast, Root Simple for more on how to build yourself a sustainable DIY lifestyle.

On the Valentines day episode of the Root Simple podcast, Tara Kolla, owner of Silver Lake Farms discusses why you should care where your flowers come from. Tara grows and sells flowers right in the heart of Los Angeles. You can find her flowers at the Hollywood Farmers Market and at a pop-up that will take […]

On the ninth episode of the Root Simple podcast Kelly and Erik recap a post on artificial turf as well as our reaction to the frightening landscaping at one of our local utility’s distribution stations. During the course of our artificial turf discussion we mention the amazing garden at the Los Angeles County Museum of […]

Our guest on the sixth episode of the Root Simple podcast is professional cook and Los Angeles County Master Food Preserver Hae Jung Cho. During the show Hae Jung walks you through the ingredients you'll need for a basic kimchi as well as how to make it. You’ll find the recipes below. Here are the […]

As they say in Silicon Valley, if you’re first release is perfect you’re too late. With that in mind, I’m finally putting up the first (after a few false starts) Root Simple audio podcast. Right now the format is Kelly and I recapping recent blog posts and going into greater detail. Plus we answer some […]