Picture Sundays: A Chicken Coop Made From a Trampoline

October 28, 2012

From the Homesteading/Survivalism Facebook page, a chicken coop made from a trampoline. Here’s a little more on the project. This coop appears to be a DIY variation on the Joel Salatin movable poultry pen. I’m assuming there’s a way to lock the chickens in the top part at night to keep out critters that might dig under the run. ...

Picture Sundays: Can the Kaiser

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September 2, 2012

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A WWI era pamphlet from the National War Garden Commission with the memorable slogans, “Can Vegetables and Fruit and the Kaiser Too” and, on the first page, “Back Up the Cannon by Use of the Canner.” You can download a copy via Archive.org....

Picture Sundays: 3D Visions of Sauerkraut

Mr. Homegrown

May 27, 2012

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From the Library of Congress Photo archive, “Visions of Sauerkraut” in glorious 3D. You can “freeview” this image without stereo glasses by learning the trick on this page....

Picture Sundays: Why Cats Purr

Mr. Homegrown

October 21, 2012

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Some solid science here. Not sure where this comes from, but spotted it on Doug Harvey’s Facebook page....

Picture Sundays: A Handy Handyman

Mr. Homegrown

January 27, 2013

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Kelly found a soggy flyer on a sidewalk near our house. The front showed a picture of a man with a mullet hairstyle holding a trophy below a headline “Best Handyman.” On the back said handyman promised the services you can see above. I laughed, then realized that it was my exact jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none set of skills. Well, except for “hydrophany” and gutters. And you’ll have to go to Kelly for both the fi...

Picture Sundays: Trout Smells Kraut

Mr. Homegrown

May 13, 2012

Animals, Cats, Picture Sundays

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Somehow, in a post about a handy fermenter from the Farmer’s Kitchen, I failed to put up this shamelessly cute picture of our cat, Trout, interfering with the photo session. If you’d like more proof that the internet is some kind of million typing monkey/non-linear/collective unconsciousness generation machine, try typing “cat and sauerkraut” into Google. You get a fluffy and deaf white cat who loves sauerkraut. We can...

Picture Sundays: Bike Rim Dome

Mr. Homegrown

February 17, 2013

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Bike wheel trellis via Homesteading/Survivalism. While it wouldn’t work with kids that like to climb, this is a nice use of bike rims. I could see it as a dome over another structure. No idea where this picture came from–it’s gone viral in homesteading circles–if you know, leave a comment....

Picture Sundays: Violetto Artichoke?

Mr. Homegrown

June 16, 2013

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A picture I took on May 5 of one of our artichoke plants. I think I grew it from seed–Franchi’s Violetto variety. In the background are Chadwick’s sweet peas....

Picture Sundays: Good News and Dog Carts

Mr. Homegrown

September 23, 2012

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First off, Governor Brown signed the California Homemade Food Act, AB 1616, into law this past week. So Californians will soon be able to make and sell “non-hazardous” foods in a home kitchen and sell them. But how will those goods get delivered? Above, a bakery in Holland using that long lost mode of transport, the dog cart. Picture via Terrierman’s Daily Dose....