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Tame the Email Beast and Have Time To Run Your Urban Homestead

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
19 Comments
ck your email. Mine reads, I check my email at noon and after the sun sets. If your needs are more urgent please give me a call at [HOME NUMBER]. BlogginR17; at www.rootsimple.com. Co-author (with Kelly Coyne) of the Urban Homestead (Process Media) and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World (Rodale). It would be cranky, but IR17;ve thought about reminding people that my phone number connects you to this device: I may have to...

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The Food and Flowers Freedom Act

Mr. Homegrown
Events
9 Comments
Local food is coming back to Los Angeles. Homegrown Evolution is proud to be a part of a new group, the Urban Farming Advocates (UFA). Not in LA? Start your own UFA branch. City codes need to be changed everywhere! UFA activist Glen Dake posted the following notice on the Garden Council website: Problem: In 1946, a Los Angeles municipal code known as the Truck Gardening Ordinance was written to allow the growing of vegetables in a residentia...

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Remember to Label Those Jars!

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Food Preservation
10 Comments
“Label, label, label!” This was one of the most important lessons I learned in my Master Food Preserver training. YouR17;ll note, from the jars above, that IR17;m not very good about this. When were those jars canned and whatR17;s in them? I have no idea. They were probably the result of some late night canning frenzy two years ago. At the time I probably thought to myself, “IR17;ll label them in the morning.”...

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Looking for Chicken Coop Plans

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
3 Comments
Our chicken run–designed by John Zapf. I got a note from Tricia Cornell, who is putting together a chicken coop plan book. There is a real need for this, so if you have a coop, consider sharing your design: Hi! IR17;m a chicken owner in Minneapolis. I was wondering if you could help me spread the word. IR17;m looking for smart, good-looking chicken coops to feature in an upcoming book. If youR17;re proud of your coop, send pictur...

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Start Your Urban Homestead for One Dollar

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
9 Comments
The Lyth Cottage in Buffalo, purchased for $1. Photo: Buffalo Rising. Want to move to Buffalo, New York? If so the city has an Urban Homestead Program where you can get a house for a $1 plus closing costs. The rules–youR17;ve got to: Fix code violations. Live in the house for at least three years. Have $5,000 in the bank for repairs. Too cold a climate for me, but you can read more about the program and see some success stories at Buf...

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Urban Homestead Wins Book Award

Mr. Homegrown
Events
11 Comments
Our book, The Urban Homestead just won a gold medal in the Independent Publisher Awards. To celebrate weR17;ll throw in a back issue of Ripples magazine for the first twenty folks who buy a copy of our book off of this website. Ripples is, “A Revolutionary Journal of Seasonal Delight” published by the nice folks at www.dailyacts.org. Now thatR17;s enough tooting our own horn. WeR17;ll get back to posting when the dust settle...

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Denver and Los Angeles Experience Crowds Staring at Chicken Coops

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens, Events
5 Comments
Denver Urban Homesteaders looking at a chicken coop Judging from the phone calls and emails coming into the Homegrown Evolution compound, America has discovered that it just might be a good idea to grow some vegetables and keep some chickens. ThereR17;s lots of motivating factors, no doubt. A bad economy and dissatisfaction with factory farming to start. But we also suspect that folks have discovered that itR17;s just plain fun to do all...

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Raccoon Proof Chicken Coop

Homegrown Neighbor
Animals, Chickens
14 Comments
Homegrown Neighbor here again: Things arenR17;t always idyllic in the world of urban farming. Actually, they rarely are. There is literally a lot of blood, sweat and tears put into what we do. IR17;m still recovering from a scare we had a few days ago. After two years of trying, the other night at 2:30 a.m. a raccoon managed to break into my chicken coop. My housemate and I were up there in our pajamas shrieking while the hens flapped and...

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Help Us Find the Ideal Urban Chicken Breed

Mrs. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
40 Comments
Townes Van Zandt with chicken We are in the market for new hens and lately it has occurred to us that the best breed criteria for our situation is not a breed which lays most frequently, but a breed which maintains its egg production as it matures–even if that means that it doesnR17;t produce as many eggs per week as a typical high production hen. Does that make sense? Because Erik is such a soft touch, we have to maintain a nu...

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