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Root Simple and Edendale Farm on ABC-7

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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A local ABC affiliate did a nice, short piece on growing food in the city featuring us and our friend David Kahn of Edendale Farm. I’ll note that David runs a real city farm (he sells eggs) while I call what we do simply gardening, as we don’t grow/raise enough to sell. It’s good to see vegetable gardening and keeping chickens going mainstream–it’s the bright side of the “great recession”....

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Building With Adobe

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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...he class will be conducted about 12 miles outside of Joshua Tree National Park in Landers, California, some 40 miles from Palm Springs. Joshua Tree and the surrounding area have a wealth of great hiking, climbing, lodging and food options. Directions to the workshop site will be provided to attendees prior to the class. Registration: The cost for the two day workshop is $250/person, a reduced rate of $150/person is offered for full-time students...

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Love the Grub 2.1

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens, Composting
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...xcellent and very detailed instructions on how to construct the BSF composter above. It’s a kind of Logan’s Run for larvae. Soldier fly females enter through the pipe on the top of the bucket and lay their eggs in food scraps you place in the bottom of the device. Larvae hatch and climb up a spiral tube and fall into a holding box. You can buy a commercial BSF propogator, the Biopod, but it’s a bit over my price range. I’l...

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Scrubbin’ It

Mr. Homegrown
Cleaning, Domesticus
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...’t have to do the dishes! Mrs. Homegrown here:   This is indeed a fine, stout scrubbie, but as at least one commenter says, it may not be the best thing for the cast iron. For indeed, if your cast iron is well seasoned, food should come off a rag, or a couple scrapes with a flat spatula. Unless you’ve really burnt dinner or something.  I’m laughing right now that Erik should put forth opinions on scrubbing cast iron, when in fac...

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Grab and Go

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness
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...go bags contain modern tools, we appreciate the ancient, and almost lost art of travel by foot. Remember kids, back in the days before SUVs people used to walk long distances without the benefit of convenience stores and fast food joints. Stay tuned for a detailed explanation of each of the Ten Essential Systems and some adaptations for urban situations....

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Build a Worm Tower

Mrs. Homegrown
Composting, Vermiculture
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Host: Leonnie Shanahan. More info: www.ecofilms.com.au Mrs. Homegrown here: One of our commenters on the compost debate, Nick H., offered up a link to a great video about worm towers, so we thought we’d share. A worm tower is a wide (at least 50cm dia.) pipe sunk halfway into the ground, with access holes on the lower half to allow the worms to come and go. Food and bedding is dropped in the top, which is kept capped. We happen to have w...

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Vermicomposting Class

Mrs. Homegrown
Composting, Events, Vermiculture
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...m designer, artist and intrepid soil builder. She spent over five years designing and running a closed-loop vermicomposting project in Chicago that used 100’s of thousands of worms to digest 10’s of thousands of pounds of food and paper waste to create healthy soil. She started The Ground Rules, a community soil building center in North Philadelphia and developed and ran a two year collective human waste recovery project Humble Pile Chicag...

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Radical Beekeeper Michael Thiele Ventures Into New Territory

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Bees
9 Comments
...8221; honey rather than “harvest” it. He’s horrified by the use of honey as a sugar alternative and would, no doubt also be horrified by all the cheap Chinese honey to be found in ketchup style packs in fast food restaurants. The bien can function as a intiatic gateway, as an inspiration for a vision of a healthier world. To experience this gateway we must look within and deal with our ego that is so neatly symbolized by the exp...

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Compost Rebuttal

Mr. Homegrown
Composting, Gardening
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...;m headed out into the garden to combine that tiny and ugly tire pile to the new pile I’m building. For more information on Ingham’s work read, Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis. Mrs. Homegrown here: Just rebutting the rebuttal. I don’t disagree with anything Erik says above, and Ingham’s work is fascinating.  But to be clear a...

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