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Saturday Linkages: Let’s Make Chickens Legal in Pasadena!

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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LetR17;s really make backyard hens legal in Pasadena CA!  Gardening Preventing the heartbreak of splayage: http://ow.ly/1RN6pB Uli WestphalR17;s Ripening Tomatoes http://greenroofgrowers.blogspot.com/2013/01/uli-westphals-ripening-tomatoes.html#.UQxX3qqq5vY.twitter … The Wild, the Domesticated, and the Coyote-Tainted http://j.mp/14EAlz6  Design Tiny Apartment in Soho/Insanely Well Designed http://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2013/01/t...

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Chicken Guantanamo

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
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So you want your own backyard hens? Some time ago Homegrown Revolution reader Toby asked about what it takes to keep chickens. While weR17;re far from being experts we thought weR17;d share what weR17;ve learned so far and welcome comments and suggestions from poultry keeping readers to add to and amend our advice. In our opinion the first step in keeping a backyard flock is to figure out where youR17;re going to house them. WeR17...

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Slaughtering Turkeys for Thanksgiving

Mrs. Homegrown
Animals, Food
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A noble Royal Palm tom. This photo by Kevin Saff. The rest are ours. This post is not for everyone, so weR17;ve concealed most of it behind the jump. This week we helped our friend, Steve, slaughter and dress four turkeys for Thanksgiving. There will be pictures, so those of you who are interested can get some idea of what the process involves. Steve is an especially conscious carnivore, because he raises and slaughters all the m...

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Using Kosher Salt for Making Pickles

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Food Preservation
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...t for fermented pickles, you must weigh out the proper amount.Weigh out 73⁄4 ounces (220 grams) of flaked salt, and you will have the equivalent of 1 cup of canning and pickling salt. This same publication also notes how easy it is to find pickling salt and how hard it is to find kosher salt. ItR17;s just the opposite here in Los Angeles. So what kind of salt do you use for pickling and fermenting? WhatR17;s the easiest to find where you l...

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Adventures in Gardening Series: Wrap up on the Hippie Heart: Growing lentils and flax

Mrs. Homegrown
Garden Design, Gardening
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The Hippie Heart got a crew cut WeR17;re clearing out our cool season crops for the warm season ones, so itR17;s time for some reporting on the new beds weR17;ve been profiling under the “Advances in Gardening” series. WeR17;ll start with the Hippie Heart. The Hippie Heart is a heart-shaped bed where I was intending to experiment with planting seeds straight out of the pantry, ill-advised as that might seem,...

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Harvesting and Drying Calendula

Mrs. Homegrown
Body Care, Calendula series, Gardening, Herbal Medicine, Herbs, How-to
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Mrs. Homegrown here: Okay, so in a previous post I talked about growing Calendula. This post IR17;m going to talk about harvesting and drying it. The next post IR17;ll do on the topic will be about making a skin-healing salve from the dried petals, olive oil and beeswax. When to harvest:  Start harvesting your Calendula as soon as the first flush of flowers is in full bloom. DonR17;t try to “save” the flowers. The more you...

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Saturday Linkages: Cave Living, Chocolate Sourdough, Persian Marmalade and Much More . . .

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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@ericmiller built the native pollinator house from Making It and tweeted the result! Farine: Chocolate and Currant Sourdough recipe http://www.farine-mc.com/2012/04/chocolate-and-currant-sourdough.html?spref=tw The American who quit money to live in a cave: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/the-american-who-quit-money-to.html A Place for Old Chickens, Outside the Pot http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/us/new-homes-beckon-for-city-chick...

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m in the heart of Los Angeles. They are the keepers of the popular DIY blog, Root Simple, and the authors of The Urban Homestead (2008), which the New York Times calls “…the contemporary bible on the subject” and Making It (2011) a project book for post-consumer society. In addition to their writing and blogging, Kelly and Erik teach and speak on the topics of self-reliance, urban gardening and sustainability. Other Info: Contact us: roots...

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How Not To Bake Bread

Homegrown Neighbor
Bread, Chickens, Food, Mistakes
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nd my experiments havenR17;t been going well. IR17;m hardly an incompetent cook. I can even bake cakes and cookies and other things leavened with baking powder or soda. But with yeast, well, I just havenR17;t figured it out. IR17;m trying to follow the Mother Earth News ‘no kneadR17; bread recipe that you bake in a dutch oven. IR17;ve tried other yeasted bread recipes before with little success. Since this one is supposed...

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