Gathering in Portland: Looking for ideas

April 25, 2011

...ouse Square, so somewhere within walking distance (or do-able by public transport) would be preferred. It should be quiet enough that we can hear each other speak, and casual enough that we can take up tables whilst nursing a beer or coffee. So Portlandites(?) Portlanders(?), tell us what you think. We’ll let you make the call....

A Used Tire Compost Bin

Mr. Homegrown

November 20, 2008

Composting

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...saw. We used a knife to cut a slit to get the saber saw started. Once both sidewalls are cut out you just stack your modified tires up, fill it with compost, put a cover on it (we used a piece of scrap aluminum), and fetch a beer. We’ll post another tire project soon....

Did Kelly follow her 2012 resolutions?

Mrs. Homegrown

December 31, 2012

Miscellaneous

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...All of it. Yay me. -Organize the labels or tags on Root Simple so our dear, somewhat abused readers can find information when they want it. This I did as part of our overhaul. -No processed sugar for the month of January. Or beer. (sigh) This I did. I’d forgotten. I probably should do it again, because I’ve been having a torrid affair with the cookie jar. -White flour, crackers, tortillas, pasta & etc. are designated as “t...

Making It

Mr. Homegrown

April 26, 2011

Publications

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...ctivities done in the home, in the garden and out on the streets. Provides step-by-step instructions for a wide range of projects, from building a 99-cent solar oven to making your own laundry soap to instructions for brewing beer. Making It is the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun, inexpensive and eminently doable. Our goal in this book was to provide really stripped down, simple projects that use only inexpensive, ea...

Revised and Expanded

Mr. Homegrown

June 7, 2010

Events

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...e a Viet Nam light• How to make a Euell Gibbon’s crock• How to make L’hamd markad, or preserved, salted lemons• How to make a bike light “The Urban Homestead… touches on vegetable gardening, poultry, DIY cleaning products and beer making — all outlined with a sense of play and fun. “—Whole Life Times “… a delightfully readable and very useful guide to front and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and ot...

Scott’s Pepsi-G Stove

Mr. Homegrown

October 5, 2011

Design, Preparedness

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...t make pancakes over one, and if you have a family to serve, you might want to consider carrying more than one of these stoves. My camping set up included the stove, a sawed off Foster’s can (you know, those extra large beer cans) as a cooking pot, a circle of chicken wire to balance the Foster’s can upon over the stove, and a bit of foil to block wind. It all tucked inside the Foster’s can for transport and weighted hardly anyt...

June: National Bathroom Reading Month

Mr. Homegrown

June 26, 2008

Thoughtstylings

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...roudly drink our L.A. tap water, we use bottled water for our home brewing projects due to the chlorine. Here’s a link to how you can compare a water quality report like this one to what kind of water is good for making beer. Performance Bicycle Catalog. We get a lot of these catalogs since every few months we break a bike tail light and have to order a new one. They just don’t build bicycle accessories to last! These bike catalogs,...

Return of Bean Friday: Spicy Mayocoba Beans

Mrs. Homegrown

March 11, 2011

Bean Fest, Food, Recipes

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...serving only the jalapenos. I like to cook everything well at this stage to bring out flavor, but am careful not to burn anything. If a crust starts to form on the bottom of the pan I deglaze it by throwing in a little water, beer or wine (depending on what I’m drinking while I cook), then loosening all that tasty goodness with a spatula. Next, add your beans and their water to the onion mix, stir well and let them continue to simmer as lon...

Urine as a Fertilizer

Mr. Homegrown

October 8, 2011

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...r house taught by Darren Butler, a big proponent of what he calls “pee-pee-ponics,” I thought I’d take a look at the science of urine use. Urine offers a free and readily available (at least after a night of beer drinking) alternative to organic nitrogen fertilizers such as blood meal. We’ve got a perpetual nitrogen deficiency in our vegetable beds and I hate buying industrial ag sourced items like blood meal. Urine is a g...

Crapper Livin’

Mr. Homegrown

September 26, 2006

Design, Preparedness, Solar

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...nd to visit this bathroom of the future. Unfortunately the vile and corrupt San Diego congressman Duncan Hunter wants to restrict access to the island so that fat cats can continue to go on $16,000 trophy hunts while drinking beer on the back of a truck. Read more about his plan to turn Santa Rosa into a retreat for disabled vets (an excuse to keep the fat cat hunt going) in the Washington Post. Please fax Hunter at this address ASAP and tell him...

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Making It

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June: National Bathroom Reading Month

Return of Bean Friday: Spicy Mayocoba Beans

Urine as a Fertilizer

Crapper Livin’