Artichoke Season at the Homegrown Revolution Compound

April 17, 2007

...ying down with a hose to blow off the damn things, not to mention thorough cleaning in the kitchen. Our love of artichokes means that we’ve gotten used to eating the occasional aphid. They may even have medicinal uses according the the Plants for a Future Database (which only gives them a measly 3 out of 5 score for usefulness!), The globe artichoke has become important as a medicinal herb in recent years following the discovery of cynarin. This b...

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Soap as a Furniture and Floor Finish

Mr. Homegrown

April 6, 2018

Cleaning, Domesticus

...u take on this annual chore. And that’s the only catch: like wax, you have to re-apply at least once a year as part of a household wide soapy cleaning ritual. More detailed info on soap finishes here....

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Greywater Precautions

Mr. Homegrown

December 5, 2006

Water Conservation

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...use your greywater immediately. Use only detergents and soaps designed for greywater systems such as Oasis Biocompatible Cleaning Products....

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Day to day, our decisions count

Mrs. Homegrown

April 30, 2015

Back to the Garden

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...d bulk bin selection, this might be a good way to buy cereals and oils and cleaning supplies at all those other sorts of things you can’t get at a farmers’ market. In the kitchen We can commit to not wasting food. We waste about 1/3 of the food calories we grow, worldwide. Not only is that a waste of our soil wealth, water, money and fuel–not to mention a huge injustice to those who are hungry– but almost all of our food waste ends up in landfills...

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That Time I Got Deplatformed

Mr. Homegrown

December 26, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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.... It could also have been a simple credit card problem. Or maybe they were cleaning up things ahead of being purchased by Chase. But I have no way of knowing since WePay refused to disclose their reasoning. Kris De Decker, who runs the awesome blog Low Tech Magazine just had the experience of getting caught in a Facebook “fake news” algorithm when the company rejected an ad he had taken out for his blog post on energy security. Energy security art...

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