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Essential System #3 – Sew Your Own Damn Clothes

Mr. Homegrown
Domesticus
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you have second-hand slave laborer blood and sewing your own clothes. The big problem with the latter solution is that sewing is a bitch — itR17;s time consuming and at times incredibly frustrating. Nevertheless this homesteading revolution we propose wonR17;t be a cake walk, and will be as much about rediscovering old techniques as it will be about new technologies. Fellow crackpot Daniel Pinchbeck in his funky new book The Return of...

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Shamelessly Tooting Our Own Horn

Mr. Homegrown
Fitness
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Unfortunately for the sedentary out there this new urban homesteading lifestyle involves a fair amount of physical fitness. WeR17;ve found that the best way to keep up with SurviveLAR17;s strenuous fitness requirements is to have a goal such as a race, or a particularly difficult hike. This is why weR17;ve been obsessed over the years with the Ketchum Downtown YMCAR17;s oddball Stair Climb to the Top which involves a heart-pounding a...

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Salsa Dancing in a World Without Oil

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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see which thrive and which perish, à la Survivor. LOVE APPLES is a collaboration between the art collective Fallen Fruit (www.fallenfruit.org) and Islands of LA (www.islandsofla.org). The artists of Fallen Fruit investigate urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community all through the lens of fruit. Islands of LA is an art project that is turning traffic islands into territories of art to create communit...

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Santa Monica Legalizes Beekeeping

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Bees
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Last night the Santa Monica city council voted to amend their municipal code to allow beekeeping on single family properties. Now, legalizing beekeeping is a bit like legalizing sunshine. Bees, after all, do their thing whether or not the government permits it or not. For every beekeeper in an urban area there must be hundreds of feral bee colonies living in walls, roofs and compost bins. Nevertheless, Santa Monica took a big step forward, join...

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Eat This City

Mr. Homegrown
Foraging
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From the Sky Full of Bacon podcast, a video on Chicago urban foragers Art Jackson and Nance Klehm: Sky Full of Bacon 07: Eat This City from Michael Gebert on Vimeo. Be sure to check NancyR17;s website Spontaneous Vegetation for information on her projects and upcoming foraging classes in the spring....

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Sandwiched!

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Miscellaneous
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Homegrown Revolution began guest blogging this week on the engaging new consciousness shiftinR17; nexus known as Reality Sandwich. WeR17;ll be posting there at least once every two weeks. Check out our first post, an urban homesteading manifesto, just above Jamye WaxmanR17;s missive, “Celebrating Sacred Sex Communities” (No doubt Waxman will probably win in the hit count). As harangues are currently running low in our on-...

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SoilWeb: An Online Soil Survey Resource

Mr. Homegrown
Miscellaneous
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s isnR17;t included for some reason). While highly technical, terms are explained via hyperlinks. You click on the table to the right of the map for more detailed information including suitability for farming. Of course in urban areas you never know what unpleasant surprises lurk beneath the surface such as concrete chunks and lead. SoilWeb wonR17;t tip you off to those things, but it does give a good overall picture of the kind of soil you...

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Saturday Linkages: Sedum Stumps, Chicken Steadycams and the End of the World

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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ist http://econ.st/KAOPVc Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee http://n.pr/Rlasks Why Phoenix is becoming more like Minneapolis: http://nyti.ms/V3Nwlo Central Valley residents tired of receiving L.A.R17;s urban waste – Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/la-me-central-valley-20121126,0,3069632.story … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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Mushrooms and Yard Sharing

Mr. Homegrown
Miscellaneous
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et me know, or better yet if youR17;ve done it yourself send me an email. And yes, there is Paul Stamets, but some psilocybin freak stole all his books out of the LA library. Secondly, IR17;m writing another article for Urban Farm Magazine and IR17;d like to speak to anyone who has set up or been a part of a yard sharing program. You get extra points if you are in New Jersey or Philadelphia. IR17;m not looking for my fellow California...

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