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Our Happy Foot/Sad Foot Sign

Mrs. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
16 Comments
Mrs. Homegrown here: Nothing about growing or making today–sorry to go off topic (Erik is wincing a bit as I post this), but I want to talk about our Foot.  It̵7;s a very local sort of story, but isn̵7;t localism what it̵7;s all about? The podiatrist̵7;s sign above marks the entrance to our neighborhood. It charmed us the first time we saw it: It̵7;s a foot–with feet!  And we immediately named it the Happy Foot/S...

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How To Design a Garden Step I: Identifying Goals

Mr. Homegrown
Garden Design, Gardening
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...s space for native plants areas that are semi-wild and not often visited  space for the composting Think and meditate on your goals before drawing up a plan.  And for those of us in the urban homesteading movement, I think it̵7;s important to measure productivity in more ways than just the amount of food you get from your yard.  How will the garden provide peace and well being? Educational opportunities? Ways to commune with nature? Some g...

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Tassajara Cookbook

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Reviews
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Mrs. Homegrown here: A quick cookbook review for ya̵7;ll. I̵7;m having lots of fun with the Tassajara Cookbook which I have out from the library. So much fun that I̵7;m considering buying it. Tassajara Zen Mountain Center is a Buddhist monestery here in California. This book is based on their famous bagged lunch offerings for their guests. This means it̵7;s all picnic/finger food sort of stuff. This suits me fine because summe...

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Saturday Linkages: Pig’s Milk, Hot Sauce, Clutter

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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...ports on Use of Non-Traditional Materials for Crop Production: http:// extension.agron.iastate.edu/compendium/ind ex.aspx  …   Cross-contamination: washing chicken or any meat is a bad idea | barfblog: http:// bit.ly/M4pybB   Making hot sauces with wild plants: http://www. urbanoutdoorskills.com/wildfoodlab.ht ml  …   How to Restore an Heirloom Axe | The Art of Manliness http:// artofmanliness.com/2012/07/17/how -to-restore-an-heirloom-axe/  …  ...

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Irish Soda Bread

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Food
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...d with the recipe my comrade in arms decided to post as representative of the best of quick breads. For years I̵7;ve been making a much better whole wheat-ish quick bread (which he seems to have forgotten) and this is how it goes: Irish Brown Soda Bread 1 3/4 c. all purpose flour1 3/4 c. whole wheat flower3 T. toasted wheat bran3 T. toasted wheat germ2 T. old fashioned oats(note: change up or skip these nuggety bits as necessary–they ju...

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L’hamd markad – Preserved Salted Lemons

Mr. Homegrown
Fermentation, Food
2 Comments
One of the big problems with citrus trees is that you get a whole lot of fruit all at one time. There are two ways to deal with this–share the harvest and/or preserve it. Homegrown Revolution has done both this week by mooching some lemons off of a friend̵7;s tree and preserving them by making one of the essential ingredients of Moroccan food, L̵7;hamd markad or preserved salted lemons. L̵7;hamd markad is easy to make. HereR...

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Make a Spore Print

Mr. Homegrown
Mushrooms
5 Comments
Making a mushroom spore print is a fun activity for the kidlings and it̵7;s simple: 1. Pick a mushroom (from the wild or the supermarket) and break off the stem. 2. Put your mushroom, spore side down, on a piece of white paper (or a 50/50 split of of dark paper and white paper to check subtleties in the color). 3. Put a glass over the mushroom and wait 24 hours. The next day you should have something that looks like the picture above. Spore...

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Alternatives to the Funeral Industrial Complex

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
40 Comments
A casket made by the monks of Saint Joseph Abbey in Louisiana. If there̵7;s one business I̵7;d like to see shut down and rethought it would be the funeral industry. I̵7;m not going to mince words. The funeral directors I̵7;ve had to deal with just wanted to turn grief into dollars. When my dad passed on his pastor warned me about what would happen at the funeral home, telling me that they would try to up-sell my mom and I. He sa...

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The grape that ate the world

Mrs. Homegrown
Gardening, Mistakes
18 Comments
grapefail or grapewin? We̵7;ve posted about our grape problems before. Pierce̵7;s disease makes it hard to grow grapes in SoCal. We̵7;ve been trying to get resistant varieties to grow on our patio arbor (aka The Masculinity Pavillion) with no success. Our most recent planting attempts are stunted and unhappy, meaning that once again we̵7;re experiencing A Summer Without Shade. While our “resistant” varietie...

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