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December Homegrown Evolution Events

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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Bread Making If you̵7;re in the Southern California area, come on down to Good Magazine̵7;s splashy digs for a bread making demo we̵7;ll be doing on Monday December 15th at 12:30 p.m. We̵7;ll be showing how to bake our favorite wild yeast bread (in our book and on our website here). Come at 11:30 a.m. and catch our organic gardening pals at Silver Lake Farms do a talk on winter vegetable crops. Stick around for puppets! Good Mag...

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Passport to Survival

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness, Reviews
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notable Thanksgiving with gluten drumsticks.” I have the 1969 edition of Passport to Survival that I picked up on Amazon. There̵7;s a more recent edition written by two of her daughters, but I haven̵7;t seen it. Should you be inspired to try your hand at wheat gluten cookin̵7;, here̵7;s some step by step instructions on making your own seitan from scratch on the Forkable blog. Update 1/15/2010: I was just thumbing throug...

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Free Preparedness E-Books

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness, Resources
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Camp loom, for making mats and mattresses from the 1911 edition of the Boy Scout Handbook Through a circuitous bit of aimless interweb searching I came across a huge list of downloadable urban homesteading/gardening/survivalist manuals on a site called hardcorepreppers.com. Unfortunately, this site is so popular that it seems to be down every time I̵7;ve checked. But thanks to Google̵7;s caching feature I was able to access a li...

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Make a Sourdough Starter

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Fermentation, Food, Recipes
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Every damn urban homesteader ought to have a sourdough starter living on their countertop. It̵7;s easy and here̵7;s how we do it around the Homegrown Evolution compound: 1. Get yourself a glass or ceramic container with a lid. It should be able to hold at least three to four cups of starter. Don̵7;t use metal. 2. Put into this container one cup of white flour and one cup of lukewarm water and stir until mixed. Put it in a warm place....

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Make Your Own Damn Cheese

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
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We live in a country where buckets have warnings on them, but the greatest indignity of our present nanny state is that the Man does not want us to eat raw cheese. As Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin put it, “A meal without cheese is like a beautiful woman who lacks an eye” and if that cheese was made with crappy pasteurized, homogenized and sterilized milk it ain̵7;t worth eating. That̵7;s why you̵7;ve got to make your own...

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Doomsday Preppers: Exploitative, Uninteresting, Unreal “Reality”

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness, Thoughtstylings
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Doomsday Preppers, a series on the National Geographic channel, is part of a cloud of meaningless cable drivel that envelopes our national psyche like the smog that hangs over Los Angeles. In many ways Doomsday Preppers is indistinguishable from countless other low rent reality TV shows. Does anyone really sit down and watch this endless parade of house flippers, dance moms and custom motorcycle enthusiasts? Or is it all a kind of background, t...

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Be a question. Be an answer.

Mrs. Homegrown
Miscellaneous
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Kotex Ad from 1971. Is that Susan Dey Cybill Shepherd? And what̵7;s that oddly eroticized blur in the foreground? Okay, time to wrest the blog out of Erik̵7;s hands. He̵7;s gone crazy with the geek-boy subject matter of late. I̵7;m going to bring this baby down to earth with a resounding thud. Let̵7;s talk menstruation. We̵7;re writing a new book, as we may have mentioned. It̵7;s a project book focused on making som...

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Shameless Self Promotion, With Kitten

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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We̵7;ve heard from several people that Making It is an excellent sleep aid. Just a reminder that our two books, Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World and The Urban Homestead make great holiday gifts. There̵7;s also a Kindle edition of both Making It andThe Urban Homestead if you̵7;re e-inclined. Even if you just click through our Amazon bookstore (on the right column) and don̵7;t buy any of our books, we...

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SIPS and Kraut at Project Butterfly

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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We̵7;ve got an event tomorrow–that̵7;s Tuesday August 25th at 7:30 p.m. in downtown Los Angeles at Project Butterfly. There will be a lecture followed by two demos: how to make a self irrigating pot and how to make sauerkraut. Cost is $20. RSVP to [email protected] Here̵7;s the 411: Step into the 21st century by making your house, apartment and kitchen a center of production. This lecture/workshop by the authors of The...

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