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California Dreaming

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
2 Comments
...last night at a fundraiser for the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, my dark mood lifted as I was reminded that good things are happening out there. Change comes slowly, one step at a time, requiring great patience. Like gardening, bread baking and home brewing there will be mistakes and setbacks. But there will also be a slow accumulation of knowledge, a gradual revolution. Someday, perhaps, that apartment mini-farm seen in my dream will be...

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4 Vermicomposting Tips

Mrs. Homegrown
Composting, Gardening, Vermiculture
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Ecological landscape designer Darren Butler has been teaching a series of classes at the Root Simple compound this month (I think there may be a few open slots in his Intermediate Organic Gardening class if you’re interested. Click here for details). Darren dropped a few vermicomposting tips during the beginning class that we thought we’d share: 1) Worms don’t like empty space in their bin. They dislike voids. They appreciate...

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Picture Sunday: A Winter Harvest in Florida

Mr. Homegrown
Fruit Trees, Gardening, Picture Sundays
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Root Simple reader Noel Ramos sent the picture above of some local fruit grown in Florida to remind us that winter gardening is big there too. Noel grows over 500lbs of fruit and veggies every year on a quarter acre city lot. In the picture: Canistel, Rollinia, red navels, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Carambola, pineapple, sapodilla, sugar apple, dwarf Cavendish bananas, ambarella, jaboticaba, jackfruit flowers, papaya, lemon and red palm fruits (inedi...

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Saturday Linkages: Don’t seek the truth – just drop your opinions

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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...ust drop your opinions. Health and Fitness Fencing may help improve some cognitive functions in older people – Los Angeles Times http://www. latimes.com/la-heb-fencing -cogitive-improvement-20111230,0,1166016.story  … Gardening Garden planter turns out to be Roman antique: http:// boingboing.net/2012/10/12/gar den-planter-turns-out-to-be.html  …  Best Reporting on the Space Shuttle Tree Debacle Science Center Given Approval to Remove Near...

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Saturday Linkages: Will Your Next House Be Built With Mushrooms?

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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Fast Fungi Bricks via Dornob Gardening What I am reading from the Los Angeles Public Library: Organic Olives http:// catalog.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/Do Search?databaseID=965&terms=5013187&index=z  …  Garden planter turns out to be Roman antique: http:// boingboing.net/2012/10/12/gar den-planter-turns-out-to-be.html  … DIY North House Folk School http:// lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2012/10/north- house-folk-school.html#.UHTSPh...

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Plantago coronopus, a.k.a. Buckhorn Plantain, a.k.a. Erba Stella

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
2 Comments
...s boiled and sauteed with garlic and olive oil. The Silver Spoon suggests cooking it with either pancetta or anchovies. As for growing Plantago coronopus, let me put it this way, if you can’t grow it consider giving up gardening. I left some in my seedling flat and, with just three inches of soil, it produced a viable crop. It’s a weed. While I’ve seen it described as a cool weather green, it grew fine this summer (admittedly a...

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Erik Speaking at Maker Faire

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at the Bay Area Maker Faire on Saturday May 19 at 6:30 pm on the Maker Square Stage (located in the Homegrown Village). The talk I’m giving will be about the appropriate tech projects we’ve been up to around the Root Simple compound–our new chicken run, greywater, solar cooking and Mediterranean edible gardening. I’d love to hang out, after the talk, with any...

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City Repair LA

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
8 Comments
...hat I like about Mark Lakeman’s actions is that they aren’t “actions.” There is none of the attention seeking, pseudo-revolutionary rhetoric that one finds in activities such as “guerrilla” gardening (or perhaps some of our own past activities!). Instead the focus is on problem solving through getting neighborhoods together and doing things rather than standing around and complaining. Yesterday I had the great...

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The Horror

Mr. Homegrown
Bikes
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Terrifying photo via Bike Snob NYC The day began with the discovery that our neighbor’s roommate, practicing the kind of gardening we associate with crazy people and goats, had hacked off half the length of the native grape vine that we had counted on covering an ugly chain link fence. An innocent mistake, but evidence that some folks apparently don’t know what grape vines look like and that they loose their leaves in the winter....

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Saturday Linkages: Makers, Haters and Beekeeping Donkeys

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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Critters Beekeeping Donkey is a Honey Farmer’s Best Friend : TreeHugger http://www.treehugger.com/culture/honey-farmer-creates-beekeeping-suit-his-donkey.html … via bikejuju Rental Search, Caused by Storm, Is Complicated by Pet Chickens http://nyti.ms/VXoM3v Gardening Exactly what wildlife do we want overwintering in our beds? | Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2012/11/what-wildlife-do-we-want-overwintering-in-our-beds.html … Grounded De...

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