Erik’s 2012 New Year’s Resolutions in Review

December 31, 2012

...head of time instead of playing catch-up at the last minute: I did indeed plan out the garden but nature had her own plans including a destructive series of skunk attacks. I’ve switched to a hands-off approach to veggie gardening inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka. Start a podcast (decided to make it a video podcast). You can subscribe in the iTunes store here (it’s freeeeee!). Clean up the graphic design on the blog and organize informatio...

Don’t Cut Down Those Sunflower Stalks!

Mr. Homegrown

November 9, 2011

Garden Design, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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I learned a neat gardening trick at the Huntington Ranch this weekend: 1. Grow tall sunflowers.2. Harvest the heads but don’t cut down the stalk.3. Use the decapitated stalk as a trellis for beans, peas etc. Depending on your climate, they could last a couple of seasons. As simple as lather, rinse repeat. ...

Saturday Linkages: Chicken Hot Dogs and Toilet Museums

Mr. Homegrown

December 8, 2012

Miscellaneous

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DIY Printing press made from IKEA drawers: http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/printing-press-made-from-ikea.html … How to Build a Gypsy Caravan from Recycled Materials… http://bit.ly/S8pABN Gardening Home Depot’s Leaf Bags and their Eco-Terrible “Tips” | Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2012/12/home-depots-leaf-bags-and-their-eco-terrible-tips.html … Design High-Hanging Tea House Offers Suspended Getaway | Designs & Ideas on Dornob htt...

Erik Speaking at Maker Faire

Mr. Homegrown

May 8, 2012

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...

Handmade, Homegrown Apron Contest

Homegrown Neighbor

October 30, 2009

Miscellaneous

4 Comments

Homegrown Evolution reader Pam Neuendorf has offered fellow readers a chance to win one of her handmade aprons. She sells her wares through Etsy, a website where crafters and artisans can sell their goods. You can see more of her aprons here. She has an ordinary day job but is a maven of craft by night. Pam says, “I love making aprons. They make me happy.” I am a big fan of aprons. They are useful for cooking, gardening or just lo...

Digital Farming- What’s The Deal?

Homegrown Neighbor

October 31, 2009

Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening

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Homegrown Neighbor here: So here in the world of urban homesteading things can get pretty busy. We can become so preoccupied with work, chickens, vegetable gardening, cooking, cleaning, blogging duties and email that we can miss some of the things going on in the world. I do like to occasionally check in with the world at large by reading the newspaper. I just read an article that I have to comment on. A recent New York Times article titled, &#...

All is Fire

Mr. Homegrown

August 24, 2010

Thoughtstylings

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...#8217;s book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable along with Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic and the fragments of Heraclitus are what I point people to when they ask, “so why do you do these things, gardening, pickling, brewing etc.” Invoking these stoic philosophers both ancient and modern is along winded and perhaps pretentious way of saying that I believe, along with Taleb, that the “highly improbableR...

Meet the Gophinator

Mr. Homegrown

November 22, 2011

Gardening, Pests

15 Comments

The Gophinator Thankfully, we don’t have gophers, but dealing with them is one of the first questions we get when teaching vegetable gardening classes. You can use raised beds lined with hardware cloth. But, other than target practice (a no-no in urban areas), most people I know with gopher problems end up using traps or zealous cats. Several sources have told me about the Cadillac of gopher traps, the aptly named “Gophina...

Garden and Ego Destroyed by Skunks

Mr. Homegrown

November 1, 2012

Pests

8 Comments

...and let the skunks work it in with their high heels Here’s what the our new keyhole bed looks like with anti-skunk measures in place–bird netting supported by bent PVC pipe. Now if only I could repair my crushed gardening ego...

Saturday Linkages: From The Woodsman Workout to Crafting With Your Cat

Mr. Homegrown

September 22, 2012

Saturday Linkages

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Yes, it’s the woodsman workout. Via the Art of Manliness. Gardening My new favorite botanic garden – in Mexico! | Garden Rant http:// gardenrant.com/2012/09/new-fa vorite-botanic-garden-in-mexico.html … Deconstructing the cornmeal myth: http:// ow.ly/1Owd1F DIY Build-It-Solar Blog: DIY Solar Water Heating System in Southeastern Pen… http://www. builditsolarblog.com/2012/09/diy-so lar-hot-water-heating-system-in.html?spref=...

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Erik’s 2012 New Year’s Resolutions in Review

Don’t Cut Down Those Sunflower Stalks!

Saturday Linkages: Chicken Hot Dogs and Toilet Museums

Erik Speaking at Maker Faire

Handmade, Homegrown Apron Contest

Digital Farming- What’s The Deal?

All is Fire

Meet the Gophinator

Garden and Ego Destroyed by Skunks

Saturday Linkages: From The Woodsman Workout to Crafting With Your Cat