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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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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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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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The Skunk Whisperer

Mr. Homegrown
Pests
5 Comments
...wing the IPM approach, just like the Skunk Whisperer, I made sure the chicken coop was well fortified and I got rid of a water feature that was a nightly raccoon attractant. Our Doberman is the icing on the anti-raccoon cake. It̵7;s easy to see how preventing points of entry into our homes is one important part of fending off critters. Judging from the voluminous photos on the Skunk Whisperer̵7;s facebook page they focus on screening out...

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Interview With Apartment Gardener Helen Kim

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Herbs
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We got a lot of emails after posting the image above of Los Angeles based photographer Helen Kim̵7;s astonishing windowsill garden. It̵7;s a great example of what you can do with a small amount of space, and brings to mind William Morris̵7; advice, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”. Helen graciously sat down for an email interview to talk about her beautiful and useful garden...

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Bushcraft Video

Mrs. Homegrown
Appropriate Technology, Preparedness
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...e other, ready to share their knowledge with you. And they are almost all men. I̵7;ve only found a couple of women who put their adventures on video. I̵7;m not sure why this is such a male dominated field, except that it is greatly fueled by the love of pointy implements and the display and discussion of such implements–which seems a very masculine past time. But that̵7;s generalizing, because I can attest that around our house,...

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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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How to Cycle Safely

Mr. Homegrown
Bikes, How-to, Transportation
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have a plan to either turn quickly or slam on the brakes. Avoid the door zone. There are rare exceptions when I will dip into the door zone briefly (only while going very slowly). But for the most part you should stay out of it. It is impossible to predict if a door will open. Lane positioning is an art not a science. It comes with experience. At any given spot on a road I might be further to the left or right depending on what time of day it is...

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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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