Making It

April 26, 2011

...ctions for a wide range of projects, from building a 99-cent solar oven to making your own laundry soap to instructions for brewing beer. Making It is the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun, inexpensive and eminently doable. Our goal in this book was to provide really stripped down, simple projects that use only inexpensive, easy to source materials. We also tried to use the same materials and ingredients over and over a...

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015 Worm Composting and Skunks

Mr. Homegrown

September 3, 2014

Bread, Composting, Food, Gardening, Pests, Podcasts, Vermiculture

...ome clipping in the audio and the cat interruptions. Worms During the worm composting segment we cover: Why worm composting rocks! Our wood worm bin. Kelly’s post on basic worm composting and resources. Santa Monica College’s worm bin. Skunks The BirdCam Pro (how I discovered that my skunk proofing did not work. Our skunk proof vegetable bed. Our late dog’s skunk hunting adventures. What are we reading Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof. Bread:...

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Free Biodynamic Composting Seminar in Los Angeles with Jack McAndrew

Mr. Homegrown

January 6, 2014

Events

...ck in November, you’ve got another chance. Here’s the 411: Free Biodynamic Composting Seminar in Los Angeles with Jack McAndrew Date: Saturday, January 18th, rain or shine Time: 10am Duration: 2 to 3 hours but stay as short or as long as you’d like Where: Micheltorena School Garden, 1511 Micheltorena Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Garden located at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Micheltorena Street. Transit Stop nearby, Bike Parking in garden...

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Free Biodynamic Composting Seminar in LA on November 16th

Mrs. Homegrown

October 29, 2013

Events

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[email protected] And here’s the details: Learn the Secrets of BioDynamic Composting from Jack McAndrews Recognized as one of America’s leading experts on biodynamic organic agriculture, Jack’s biodynamic composts have been the secret behind some of the most beautiful and healthiest gardens in Hollywood and on the Westside. And now you can learn how to create this black gold in your own backyard. Maria C. Linder, Professor of Biochemistry at CalS...

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Compost Outlaws

Mr. Homegrown

December 29, 2008

Composting, Thoughtstylings

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...r State recycling and enforcement programs.” There’s a opportunity in this composting kerfuffle for an elegant solution. Anyone who gardens in the city knows how important, and sometimes difficult, it is to get enough organic matter. How about regional composting facilities? Instead of trucking organic matter from restaurants and yards to far-off dumps (and generating tons of diesel particulate matter on those long hauls), how about we compost it...

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