Search Results for: label/fruit/2010/06/the-urban-homestead

639 results

The Original L.A. Urban Homestead

Avatar photo
Thoughtstylings
6 Comments
You know that band you saw play at your local dive bar back in the day that is totally popular now and playing in arenas? Well, the L.A. Eco-Home is kind of like that. Long 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...

Read…

LA ecovillage: self-reliance in a car-free urban homestead

Avatar photo
Bikes, Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Transportation
5 Comments
...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdQGozSavz8 Johnny, who shot that nice video of us for faircompanies.com just made another video about our friends at the LA ecovillage. It’s well worth a view. Some of the most amazing folks in Los Angeles live there. And I like that fact that’s it’s an ecovillage smack dab in the middle of my beloved hometown. Make sure to also check out Johnny’s blog Granola Shotgun....

Read…

A Prickly Harvest

Avatar photo
Gardening
3 Comments
...e those painful glochids, are one of our favorite crops here on our humble urban homestead (though, truth be told, a certain co-homesteader here resents the invisible glochids that inevitably end up on the kitchen countertop, not to mention the hundreds of seeds in the fruit itself). But you must respect a plant that can produce fifty pounds of fruit, not to mention edible leaves on just the three inches of rain we received in this very dry year....

Read…

Tuesday Morning Fruit Linkages

Avatar photo
Gardening
1 Comment
...r mentions a number of intreguing internet resources, perfect for a little post holiday weekend surfing: More than you ever wanted to know about the world’s smelliest fruit: Durian (Durian Palace) The California Rare Fruit Growers, “Pushing the Limits of Fruit Growing, Worldwide” (CRFG) The world’s largest fig database (figs4fun) The strange and obsene Coco de Mer, a fruit denintely NSFW (Earth Science Picture of the Day)...

Read…

How To Make Hoshigaki (Dried Persimmons)

Avatar photo
Food, Food Preservation, How-to
29 Comments
...hat they will hang from. Note the knife trick you use to do this. Turn the fruit, not the knife: Next you peel the skin off the fruit: Hanging Cut a 24 inch length of string and tie it into a loop. Take two similarly sized fruit and tie their stems together with the string: A 2 inch diameter bamboo pole is just about right to keep the persimmons separated. A sunny window is a good place to hang the persimmons. The curtain, in the photo above, was...

Read…