The Making of a Great Olive Oil

January 3, 2011

Food

...are tucked around the vineyards. If you’re ever in Northern California the Preston Vineyard is well worth a visit. We got to taste a Barbera wine that they make–quite amazing. They also bake a delicious sourdough bread, keep a flock of laying hens and sell cured olives. And the scenery? Let’s just say it was difficult to come back to gritty Los Angeles. Preston Vineyards website with visiting hours and map. Lou Preston’s...

California Buckwheat

Mr. Homegrown

December 20, 2006

Food, Foraging

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Here’s a plant SurviveLA would like to see in more Southern California gardens. California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum foliolosum) has multiple uses–it provides cover and nectar for animals, grows with almost no water, and best of all it produces edible seeds. We’ve gathered the seeds we’ve found in fields and baked it into bread and added it to cereal to both boost nutritional value and to add a nutty flavor. The...

Legalize Baking!

Mr. Homegrown

August 15, 2011

Thoughtstylings

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Did you know that in California and many other states it’s illegal to hold a bake sale? That a synagogue in Los Angeles got busted by the Health Department for hosting a bake sale? That you can’t bake bread in a home kitchen and resell it? Obviously, we need to change this. In what looks like an economic climate that won’t change for the better anytime soon, we need to encourage micro-business enterprises, foster a entreprene...

Los Angeles Fruit Tree Pruning Workshops

Homegrown Neighbor

January 13, 2011

Events, Gardening

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...ching another one. And for those of you who aren’t local, the Homegrown Evolution team is going to work on some web based stuff for you. I’m going to teach Mr. Homegrown how to prune (in exchange for help baking bread, which I’m terrible at) and we will take photos for a blog post explaining the basics of fruit tree pruning....

I drank a bottle of MiricleGro and then got on my riding lawn mower

Mr. Homegrown

March 30, 2010

Thoughtstylings

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...MiracleGro: Unprecedented Pesticide Contamination Found in Beehives. Beyond Pesticides Daily Blog. And speaking of bees: sign a petition to legalize bees in Santa Monica here. Crop Mob! Volunteers help small farmers. Cricket Bread. Via Joe Linton (thanks Joe!). Green Roof Growers announce new sub-irrigating pot experiments. Green Roof Growers. Last but not least: Man arrested driving riding lawn mower down the street while drunk. The Buffalo N...

Kitchen Alchemy

Mr. Homegrown

November 6, 2008

Food, Recipes

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...ors. All share a common vision of positive change through personal and household actions. Ysanne Spevack moved to our neighborhood recently and has a really nice cooking website and blog at www.organicfoodee.com. That pumpkin bread she blogged about recently looks mighty tasty and we can’t wait to try her buckwheat recipes recently featured in the Los Angeles Times. She has written a number of books, specializing in cooking with organic ing...

Saturday Linkages: Of Granola and Turlets

Mr. Homegrown

February 23, 2013

Saturday Linkages

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...e-flat-tire-repair-kit-insi.html … Building a bottle tower for container gardening: http://youtu.be/-uDbjZ9roEQ A just plain cool garden design blog: http://jeffreygardens.blogspot.com Do Everything Wrong And Still Bake Good Bread http://huff.to/UHEpMm Bad News Department Citrus industry using insecticide deadly to bees: sulfoxaflor has surfaced again http://shar.es/YTAP7 CISPA is back: worst Internet law since SOPA needs you to fight it! ...