Saturday Linkages: Composting People, Jujubes, Bumpy Eggs and More

A conceptual drawing of the Urban Death Project’s human composting operation. Composting human remains, the Urban Death Project (we like the idea but are not sure about their carbon to nitrogen ratios!) #funeralindustry http://www.urbandeathproject.org/#home Holy Scrap: Jujube to Syrup http://blog.holyscraphotsprings.com/2014/09/jujube-to-syrup.html?spref=tw … The Secret to Keeping Rosemary Alive Indoors http://tinyurl.com/qa64mnv via @TenthAcreF...

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The Original L.A. Urban Homestead

...before glossy magazines were doing “Green” issues, before hybrid cars and composting became hip, Julia Russell had been giving tours featuring the environmentally friendly aspects of her home and garden. Julia is pictured here in front of her Gordon apple tree which bore over 500 lbs. of apples last year. (We counted, seriously.) The Los Angeles Eco-Home Network has been educating Angelenos about simple ways to conserve energy and other resources...

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Urban Homesteading: What Went Wrong

...es of future posts I’d like to look back at the ideas in our two books The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World. I’ll consider both the broader ideas in the books as well as what might have changed in terms of specific methods in subjects such as gardening and beekeeping. First let me peel back the curtain for those of you have have never written a book and describe how awkward and weird it can be to read your o...

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Urban Farm Magazine

...elly Yrarrazaval of Orange County. All of these fine folks have repurposed urban and suburban spaces to grow impressive amounts of food, a common sense trend popular enough to have spawned this new magazine. Editor Karen Keb Acevedo says, “Urban Farm is here to shed a little light on the things we can all do to change our lifestyles, in ways we think are monumental as a whole, yet at the same time, barely noticeable on their own.” The first issue...

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Composting the Deceased/ My DIY Funeral Fantasies

...but in my researches I have found this essay by him on his own longing for composting burials, titled Pushing Up Daisies. In it, he points out that even a large body will not last long in an active compost pile, but he does not speak of this specific method I’m sharing with you today. I don’t want to either steal his credit for this idea or saddle him with it. I’ll just say he was mentioned when I learned this. And if he did not develop the method...

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