054 Digital Design Tools on the Homestead

July 22, 2015

Our topic this week is using digital design tools such as Sketchup to conceptualize and build simple projects around your house or apartment. Our guest is designer John Zapf, proprietor of Zapf Architectural Renderings and the genius behind our chicken run. During the podcast we discuss: Why you should draw up plans before you build something Architectural Graphics Standards Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) technology John’s Cat Bed 7 (pictu...

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Homegrown Evolution in Chicago

Mr. Homegrown

May 9, 2009

Events

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...ter with: [email protected] Erik will lead an informal presentation on Urban Homesteading in Los Angeles – focusing on his and his wife’s homegrown systems of adventurous experimentation of chickens, growing, greywater, brewing and more – some successful, some not so much! Copies of The Urban Homestead will be for sale. Many thanks to Nancy Klehm for arranging these events! See her website Spontaneous Vegetation for more info on other events a...

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Casting out the lawn

Mr. Homegrown

June 5, 2008

Lawns, Thoughtstylings

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...onment, rising food costs and the importance of donating to those in need. Urban Farming and Holy Nativity, along with the project’s partners, will have a celebration event on Sunday, June 8. This garden is a partner in the Urban Farming campaign, “INCLUDE FOOD™ when planting and landscaping”. During World War II, twenty million people planted “victory gardens” at their homes. They grew 40% of America’s produce. We did it then, we can do it again....

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Weekend Linkages: Of Conceptual Coffee Grinders, Hidden Letters and Witches

Mr. Homegrown

October 22, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...Alexander Shayle’s coffee grinders Raspberry Pi All Sky Camera Stop obsessing over heirloom seeds and let plants change A Letter from an 18th-century Journeyman Cabinetmaker You are not, in fact, the granddaughter of the witches they couldn’t burn...

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Weekend Linkages: All Hallows’ Eve

Mr. Homegrown

October 29, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...Arend Hendriks, Cat at the top of a Dark Staircase. All the Whole Earth Catalogs online Make a timelapse camera with a Raspberry Pi ‘Dangerously misguided’: the glaring problem with Thomas Heatherwick’s architectural dreamworld Missing Downtown Connector Bikeways Leon Ray Livingston, America’s Most Famous Hobo...

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