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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. He̵7;s critical without being curmudgeonly and manages to separate the truth from the hype (and there̵7;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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The Brooklyn Bee

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Bees
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“if bees were to disappear, man would only have a few years to live” -Albert Einstein Homegrown Revolution spoke to urban beekeeper John Howe today who keeps a couple of hives high atop the roof of his home in Brooklyn New York. He got the idea to take up urban beekeeping when one day a bee landed on his plate while he was eating at an outdoor restaurant and now his hives produce around 150 pounds of honey a year which he sells a...

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Urban Foraging with Nance Klehm

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Foraging
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Via The Little Green People Show, a podcast with Chicago̵7;s urban forager Nance Klehm: “We̵7;re not talking gardens or dumpster diving. This is a discussion of the riches that grow in our highway medians, city planters, backyards and rail lines. Expert forager, Nance Klehm, sheds light on the city̵7;s bounty, from medicinal plants to tasty greens. Getting to know the foraging landscape takes some time and energy, but gives bac...

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Spike 1998-2010

Mrs. Homegrown
Animals
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Our much loved 12 year old Doberman passed tonight. It̵7;s been a horrible day spent going back and forth to the emergency vet, but he went fast, which was a blessing. Right now we̵7;re blindsided. The house feels like it has a crater in the middle of it. He̵7;s been with us since he was a puppy, so we really don̵7;t know how to get along without him anymore. His name was Spike, unless it was Deiter, which was also his name. He...

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Summer 2010 Tomato Report

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Gardening
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Tomato season began inauspiciously with unseasonably cold weather for Southern California. I simply couldn̵7;t get any seeds to germinate. Thankfully, Craig of gardenedibles.com came to the rescue with a couple of seedlings for us. Here̵7;s a recap of our tomato successes and failures: Red Pear. I̵7;ve grown this one before. It̵7;s a plump, ribbed, meaty tomato. It̵7;s flavorful and amazing both fresh and made into sauce. Cr...

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Beans 101 (Return of Bean Friday!)

Mrs. Homegrown
Bean Fest, Food, How-to
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Simple is good. As a follow up to the “Dollar Supper” post,  this post is about is the simple act of making a pot of beans. I make beans about once a week, the goal being to always have beans in the fridge. For us, they̵7;re an essential staple. (Readers new to Root Simple should note that we̵7;ve done a lot of posts about beans, and have gathered favorite bean recipes from our readers. So if you̵7;re looking for recipes,...

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Bean Fest, Episode 3: Bastardized Puerto Rican Beans

Mrs. Homegrown
Bean Fest, Food, Recipes
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Mrs. Homegrown here: It̵7;s been a tough week here on the bean front. I had two beanfail incidents trying to come up with a recipe for this week. The first, an Armenian recipe for white beans, failed through no fault of its own but because the beans were hopelessly old. No matter how long I cooked them, they stayed crunchy, yet somehow also tasted overcooked. Shudder. Meanwhile, I̵7;d been obsessing on Cuban-style black beans, but fell...

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Picture Sundays: Uncle Sam Calls For Fruit Plantings On Every Farm & Suburban Homestead

Mrs. Homegrown
Picture Sundays
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At a lecture at last week̵7;s National Heirloom Exposition, Gary Nabhan passed around this in-house newspaper directed at the sales force working for Stark Brothers Nursery in 1946. To assist the Government̵7;s new Home FRUIT PLANTING campaign, Stark Bro̵7;s have been conducting a huge Direct-Mail drive to create interest in this important subject. Inquiries from the huge Direct-Mail Campaign are referred to YOU as soon as you start...

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Countdown

Mrs. Homegrown
Events
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Our new book comes out just about a month–April 26th–and today two super-advance copies came to us by mail. Believe me, it̵7;s awfully strange to see something that has existed only as computer files suddenly materialize on your porch! We realize we haven̵7;t given our new book a formal introduction yet, so here goes.  Making It: Radical Home-Ec for a Post Consumer World is our follow up to The Urban Homestead . The...

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