Cultivate Simple 37: What’s Next in the Garden
Today on Cultivate Simple we’re talking about fall/winter gardening. Now is the time to plant cold weather crops. It is worth a try.
Brian’s Geeky Corner
f.lux makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
Johnny’s Seed Fall/Winter Planting Calculator
Territorial Fall/Winter Planting Chart
Books of the Week
What’s your favorite cold weather vegetable?
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Cultivate Simple 36: MicroBusiness
First of all we want to apologize for the audio quality. We recorded this while traveling back from Ohio to Maine.
A couple weeks ago we discussed tips for starting a small business. On this week’s episode we discuss micro businesses in depth.
What micro business would you like to start?
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Cultivate Simple 35: Cast Iron Cooking
Today on Cultivate Simple we’re talking about all things cast iron.
Brands to Buy:
Staub enameled cast iron, I especially like Staub Round Cast Iron Cocotte
Lodge Cast Iron
What I use to clean my cast iron:
- Stainless Steel Scouring Pad
- Castile Soap Mt Rose Herbs
I use Coconut Oil from Tropical Traditions, see my post about it.
Books of the Week:
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Cultivate Simple 34: Open for Business
On this week’s episode we discuss some tips for starting a small business. While these things may not work for everyone, they have continually worked for us.
Elderflower Fritters from Nigel Slater
Duck Breast Prosciutto how-to from Salted & Styled
Snug Harbor Farm in Kennebunk, here’s Pickle’s Pick of the Week
- Be Unique. You have to have a unique product or service or provide the product or service in a unique way.
- Figure out how to creatively market your product, don’t be satisfied with the status quo, get a website and facebook page.
- Make wise decisions and consider alternatives. Think things through to their logical conclusion.
- Be frugal. Try not to buy stuff you don’t need, for the business and personally.
- Be willing to invest lots of time and effort for a while without much return.
Books of the Week
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Cultivate Simple 33: Stew 2.0
An honest and unrehearsed discussion about trying to live a more simple life. This is episode 33 and today we are talking about everything that’s going on Around the Run.
The main garden when we put the pigs in and the main garden yesterday after moving the pigs and putting in a few days of work ourselves. The first two were taken on April 27th when we put the pigs in that area. The other two were taken last night. And this is with moving the pigs off of this area for a week or ten days.
What’s mistakes have you learned from recently?
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