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Michael Tortorello on Urban Homesteading

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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Michael Tortorello, who wrote that nice piece about us a few months ago, “Living Large, Off the Land,” is one of my favorite writers on gardening and “urban homesteady” topics. He’s critical without being curmudgeonly and manages to separate the truth from the hype (and there’s an awful lot of hype in this movement!). Plus he managed to get an entire paragraph about my thyrsus into the New York Times. Thyrsus...

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Build a Washing Machine Greywater Surge Tank

Mr. Homegrown
Water Conservation
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...ctly to your garden through a pipe. Here’s how to create a surge tank: 1. Get ahold of a fifty gallon plastic drum. Most big cities, Los Angeles included, have businesses that resell used drums. Make sure that you get a food quality drum and not something that held toxic materials. The best kind of drum for this purpose is one that has a lid, both so that you can clean it out periodically, and to make it easier to fit the hose connection at...

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Kitchen Alchemy

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
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...writes about. These symbolic gestures need not be over sized, nor do all of them require land. Cooking homemade meals from scratch, as often as possible, is just the kind of alchemy one can practice anywhere you’ve got food and a source of heat. And what is cooking anyways, but a form of alchemical transformation? As luck would have it, we’ve had a number of visitors to our humble casa in the past week, Pinchbeck included (read his t...

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Quebec Kitchen Garden Saved

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening
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...ect in other cities worldwide as zoning laws are a constant debate in urban environments. Roger told us, “The Drummondville case was one of the highest profile examples of a local municipality challenging the right to grow food in one’s own yard. While it took place in Canada, it quickly attracted international media attention because of the garden’s beauty and productivity. The win is significant because it helps establish a precedent that...

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Backwoods Home Magazine

Mr. Homegrown
Resources
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...January/February issue features a detailed article on how city dwellers can maximize their vegetable production in small spaces. Even the article on running a cattle ranch has the side benefit of letting us all know where our food comes from, and the challenges of running a family farm, “Jessica Troxel has donned a plastic sleeve, greased it with mineral oil, and reaches in through the cow’s anus to see if this one is pregnant.” reads the caption...

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UMass Soil Testing

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Soil
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...edge of soil testing is about the living inhabitants of the soil, all those microorganisms, fungi and other critters rather than just old “NPK.” Dr. Elaine Ingham is a pioneer in this field. She offers “Soil Foodweb” testing via her website. I’ve read some grumbling from academics about some of her ideas and her commercial endeavors, particularly related to aerated compost tea. However, soil foodweb testing makes int...

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Homegrown Evolution at Environmental Change-Makers

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Events
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We’ll be doing a talk this Thursday in Westchester (Los Angeles) at the monthly meeting of Environmental Change-Makers. But don’t just come to see us! This event is at the Church of the Holy Nativity, which took out a lawn to grow food for the needy, an idea we’d like to see spread around the world. The Church of the Holy Nativity is located at Dunbarton at 83rd St., (6700 West 83rd Street) Westchester 90045. The meeting and t...

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Saturday Linkages: Can Gardens, BOLs and Attack Geese

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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...se of new training | barfblog http:// barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/blog/155926/12 /08/28/will-training-change-anything-california-slaughterhouse-reopens-promise-new-tra#.UD7gjmGEwSQ.twitter  … Bill would allow sale of homemade foods http://www. latimes.com/business/la-fi -homemade-food-20120829,0,6759357.story  …   Opposing view: FDA rules won’t do much good – http:// USATODAY.com   http:// usat.ly/O3s3I8#.UDkEpQ RgbAk.twitter  …  Just Pla...

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