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Homegrown Evolution Visits the Los Angeles County Fair

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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There̵7;s a guy I sometimes see on my morning jogs commuting to work on what looks like a kid̵7;s scooter outfitted with an electric motor. The high price of gas has, in fact, driven folks here in L.A. to increasingly bizarre forms of transportation: barely functional 1980s Mercedes Benzes running on deep fryer fat, scooters, golf cart like electric cars etc. I̵7;m waiting for folks to adopt the glorious, 19th century bicycle, and wh...

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Raw Milk Talk With Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures on the Homegrown Evolution Podcast

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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Image from the Organic Pastures website In the second episode of the Homegrown Evolution podcast we present a talk by Mark McAfee, founder and CEO of Organic Pastures Dairy, a raw milk dairy in California. The talk was recorded on August 28th, 2010 and was sponsored by Altadena Heritage and the Arroyo Food Co-op. McAfee had slides, but I think the talk is self explanatory without them for the most part. When he mentions his neighbor...

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The Food and Flowers Freedom Act

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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Local food is coming back to Los Angeles. Homegrown Evolution is proud to be a part of a new group, the Urban Farming Advocates (UFA). Not in LA? Start your own UFA branch. City codes need to be changed everywhere! UFA activist Glen Dake posted the following notice on the Garden Council website: Problem: In 1946, a Los Angeles municipal code known as the Truck Gardening Ordinance was written to allow the growing of vegetables in a residentia...

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Urban Chicken Enthusiasts Unite!

Homegrown Neighbor
Animals, Chickens
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Creating community is a vital part of the urban homesteading movement. For why should one make jam or grow zucchini without people to share it with? In a big, crazy city like L.A. there are lots of interesting people doing inspiring things, you just have to find them. I̵7;m always excited to meet new people who are interested in all the things we write about here at Homegrown Evolution. I was lucky to move a block away from Mr. and Mrs. Home...

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Homegrown Evolution Podcast Episode #1

Mr. Homegrown
Water and Power, Water Conservation
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Subscribe to the Homegrown Evolution podcast in itunes here. Download the mp3 on archive.org. On this first episode of the Homegrown Evolution podcast we talk food preservation with author Ashley English who blogs at small-measure.blogspot.com. English will have two books out next year on food preservation and chickens, part of a series entitled “Homemade Living,” (Lark Books). She also has a weekly column every Friday on Design*Sp...

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Our Holiday Gift Suggestions

Mr. Homegrown
Reviews
4 Comments
That dreaded holiday seasons is just around the corner. With unemployment still high we hope that many of you have negotiated a family gift truce to limit tedious shopping. Or perhaps you̵7;re making things to give away. But if you still need to get a little something for that special homesteader on your shopping list, we̵7;ve got a few suggestions from our Homegrown Evolution Amazon Store. Even if you just click through the store and b...

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Tame the Email Beast and Have Time To Run Your Urban Homestead

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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ck your email. Mine reads, I check my email at noon and after the sun sets. If your needs are more urgent please give me a call at [HOME NUMBER]. Bloggin̵7; at www.rootsimple.com. Co-author (with Kelly Coyne) of the Urban Homestead (Process Media) and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World (Rodale). It would be cranky, but I̵7;ve thought about reminding people that my phone number connects you to this device: I may have to...

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A Tour of the Homegrown Evolution Compound

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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It̵7;s about damn time we gave an overall tour of the Homegrown Evolution digs, at least to dispel some misconceptions out there (more on those at the end of the post). Let̵7;s begin with the front yard, pictured above. Our house sits up about 30 steps from the street level. Running the laundry water out to the front (using Oasis Biocompatible Detergent), has really made the plants happy. The front yard has a mix of prickly pear cactus,...

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Happy Holidays from Homegrown Evolution

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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We didn̵7;t get around to our annual Christmas missive this year so we̵7;ll have to share some silliness via the interwebs. Here at Homegrown Evolution we like to combine the country and the city. Kinda like this: Look out, this might get stuck in your head–what the Germans call “ohrwurm” (ear worm): Fröhliche Weihnachten! May your coming year be full of homegrown veggies, bikes and bathtub booze!...

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A Homegrown Revolution manifesto by way of a short (true) story.

Mr. Homegrown
Bikes
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1. Fitness is part of the urban homesteading thing So on our daily bike ride to the downtown YMCA we spotted four tires laying by the side of the road. 2. Try to grow as much food as you can Tires are a great way to grow potatoes–we̵7;ll explain this when we try it ourselves. Meanwhile you can read about doing this, as well as many other uses for old tires in the informative archives of Backwoods Home Magazine. 3. Cargo bikes rule...

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