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Stickers for the Organic Gardener

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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Via BoingBoing a clever re-purposing: “Evil Mad Scientist Labs wants you to proudly label your organic garden with these handsome “Now Slower and with More Bugs!” stickers, originally produced to adorn software products. The influence of the Slow Food movement is increasing, and gardening is getting ever more popular. Even the tech bloggers are posting about local pollinators and getting beehives. In this environment, it is fi...

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Lady Urine, Water Conservation and Halfway Humanure

Mrs. Homegrown
Gardening, Straw Bale Gardening
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...composter. And for the flush-toilet trained, it’s much easier to pee in a bucket than to poop in a bucket. It’s just not such a big psychological leap. (It’s actually a great stepping stone to full humanure composting, if that’s your goal). The material you collect can go straight onto your regular compost pile–no special treatment required–and it’s a valuable resource. So, to sum up this meandering post...

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Other People’s Poo: Biosolids in the Garden

Mr. Homegrown
Composting, Gardening, Thoughtstylings
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...he soil test showed high levels of: zinc 196 ppm copper 76 ppm sulfur 5,752 ppm The problem isn’t human waste, it’s all the other stuff that ends up in the sewer. I see a future when we’ll be responsibly composting human waste (see Joseph Jenkin’s website for how to do that). But watch out for that free city compost. Update: A blog reader, Helane Shields, left an interesting series of links about biosolids in the comme...

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Cooking with Poo

Mr. Homegrown
Composting, Humanure
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Homegrown Revolution Toronto correspondent Nicholas Sammond wrote us this morning asking if it would be possible to generate enough methane in his new abode via a composting toilet to cook with. It’s a great question since once abundant natural gas is getting scarce and expensive here in North America, and the desperation has gotten to the point that large and dangerous liquefied natural gas terminals are in the proposal stage across the c...

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Healing the yard with a huge compost pile

Mrs. Homegrown
Composting, Gardening
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...n the oven, the pit has grown to be about 12 feet wide and 2 feet deep. This pit is going to be our new planting area, but obviously it needs to be filled in. Instead of buying imported soil, we’re going to grow soil by composting on a grand scale. We’re going to compost right in the pit and fill it up bit by bit. When it’s done, we’ll have a big round area where it will probably be safe enough to plant food crops. Might t...

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How To Design a Garden Step I: Identifying Goals

Mr. Homegrown
Garden Design, Gardening
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...cts and birds beauty a place to sit and hang out with friends a place to sit and work with a laptop space for our chickens flowers for bees space for native plants areas that are semi-wild and not often visited  space for the composting Think and meditate on your goals before drawing up a plan.  And for those of us in the urban homesteading movement, I think it’s important to measure productivity in more ways than just the amount of food...

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Edible Rooftop Gardens

Homegrown Neighbor
Gardening, Rooftop Gardening, Self Watering Containers, Vegetable Gardening
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...dab in the middle of the city and was pretty impressive. And since I may be visiting Austin, I’d like to know of any cool projects or people I should visit there. Anyone who brews beer, builds bikes, does some serious composting, is an urban farmer or raises chickens would be great. And I’d love to see some community gardens. So Texas, I want to hear from you. Leave a comment or email me at [email protected] Thanks,Ho...

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Homegrown Revolution at the Silver Lake Film Festival

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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Thanks to the cinematic revolutionaries at the Echo Park Film Center, Homegrown Revolution’s debut video “How to Build a Self Watering Container” will premiere at the Silver Lake Film Festival, as part of the Sustainable LA program on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY May 6th at 11:30 a.m. at the LosFeliz 3 (1822 North Vermont Avenue-map). We’ll be sharing a program with composting Culver City comrade Elon Schoenholz, the Fallen Frui...

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