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Edible Landscaping and Gardening Classes With Darren Butler

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...onality and what to do when, building raised beds, choosing containers, plant selection, transplanting, soil preparation, irrigation, wise water use, pest management (weeds, diseases, insects), beneficial insects, composting, harvesting, and seed saving. INTERMEDIATE ORGANIC GARDENING FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Hosted by Root Simple in Silver LakeTuesday and Thursday evenings,Oct 18, 27, Nov 1, 3, 6:00 to 9:00pm$115 early registration for payments r...

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Upcoming Classes: Edible Gardening and Vermicomposting

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...onality and what to do when, building raised beds, choosing containers, plant selection, transplanting, soil preparation, irrigation, wise water use, pest management (weeds, diseases, insects), beneficial insects, composting, harvesting, and seed saving. INTERMEDIATE ORGANIC GARDENING FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Hosted by Root Simple in Silver LakeTuesday and Thursday evenings,Oct 18, 27, Nov 1, 3, 6:00 to 9:00pm$115 early registration for payments r...

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Greywater Workshops in Los Angeles

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...- 7:00 pmWhere: LA Eco Village 117 Bimini Pl Los Angeles CA 90004Cost: Sliding scale $15-$5Reservations required: [email protected] or 213/738-1254This workshop will cover: Ecological Sanitation – waterless toilets and urine harvesting – can save water, protect the environment, and create free fertilizer around the world. Learn the “how and why” of composting toilets and urine reuse, see projects from Mexico, China, Sweden, Zim...

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Finding an Urban Homestead on Craigslist

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Thoughtstylings
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Backyard of the “Lee Street Homesteaders” You know the urban homestead thing has caught on when the phrase shows up in a Craigslist rental ad: Imagine… living at the edge of a city and at the edge of modern society. Growing your own food and medicine in your backyard. Raising poultry and harvesting your own eggs. Brewing your own beer and kombucha. Fermenting your own raw sauerkraut and pickles. And living within s...

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Salvia Means Salvation: White Sage

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Gardening, Herbs, Native Plants
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Salvia apiana, photo by Stan Shebs Mrs. Homegrown here: Today I was lucky enough to be able to take part one of a two part class taught by Cecilia Garcia and James Adams, Jr., authors of Healing with Western Plants at the Theodore Payne Foundation. I’ve blogged about their book before, and was thrilled to be able to see them in person. Cecilia is a Chumash healer. James is a professor of pharmacology and a botanist. In both the...

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Reasons and Resources for Growing Your Own Grains at Home

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Gardening, Resources
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...le Grains, for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers by Gene Logsdon, originally published in 1977 but recently updated and re-released. Logsdon covers the full spectrum of grains as well as legumes. Included are instructions for harvesting, threshing and winnowing by hand. Logsdon is an entertaining and engaging writer who calls small backyard grain fields “pancake patches”. My pancake patch will probably yield exactly one pancake, but I...

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Rules for Eating Wheat

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Bread, Food, Wheat
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...n it comes to plant breeding. Saving seed and developing local varieties are a good thing. Genetic modification is probably a huge risk.  Breed wheat for flavor and disease resistance not shipability and ease of mechanical harvesting. Our markets should have at least as many flour varieties as flavors of soda. We should be willing to pay a little more for a higher quality flour. Eat whole grains rather than refined grains whenever pos...

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