New Health Food Trends at the Natural Products Food Expo West

March 11, 2013

...iled up and examined to find their “hidden abs” that would, presumably, be revealed through consumption of a whey powder supplement beverage. The Good The good news is that the handful of cool things I found more than made up for all those quinoa power bars. I’ll share those discoveries this week....

Bar Codes on Veggies

Mr. Homegrown

August 18, 2008

Thoughtstylings

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...their QR coding for agricultural products tagging a wide variety of vegetables grown in that prefecture. Ibaraki Prefectural authorities and the JA Ibaraki Prefecture Central Union of Agricultural Cooperative cooperating with other farming and agricultural associations are adding QR code labels right at the point of origin. In the supermarket, consumers use camera equipped cell phones to scan the QR code on the label. The code links to a mobile w...

Are Pallets Safe to Reuse?

Mr. Homegrown

June 14, 2011

Composting, Design, Thoughtstylings

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...pallets. That being said, a Tylenol recall was linked to the use of tribromophenol (TBP) to fumigate pallets. Though, depending on if you believe the trade organizations behind wood pallets or plastic pallets (they hate each other), the Tylenol recall may have had nothing to do with TBP which is not used to fumigate pallets in the US. So, as with most issues on this blog, no easy answer. But I’m still not concerned about using pallets as...

Back on the Yogurt Train: How to Make Yogurt

Mrs. Homegrown

September 5, 2010

Fermentation, Food, Recipes

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...to pre-heat your cooler. Pour hot water in it as well and let it sit until the last moment. And fill up your hot water bottle, if you have one. Stir in 1 Tablespoon of yogurt for every quart of milk in your pot. Use no more than that. Stir until dissolved. Transfer the inoculated milk into warm jars, cap them, and stuff them into the warm cooler (which you’ve emptied of water). Do all this fast so you don’t lose much heat. Your miss...

On the Difficulty of Finding Pastured Animal Products

Mr. Homegrown

March 12, 2013

Animals

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Chickens on pasture. Image by MentalMasala. I was hoping to bring some good news this morning, specifically about a non-profit animal welfare rating service that I found out about at the National Products Expo. There were two animal welfare rating organizations at the Expo, one I decided not to write about because I considered their standards too loose–specifically they do not mandate pasture. The other requires pasture and I was looking f...

Another Chicken Fatality

Mr. Homegrown

August 31, 2011

Animals, Chickens

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each it). I thumbed through Gail Damerow’s Chicken Health Handbook, but I don’t have much evidence to go on. I didn’t see any obvious symptoms other than a very small amount of listlessness just before both chickens died and a bit of what might be bloody diarrhea on the roost. Mrs. Homegrown disinfected the coop as best she could and I swept out the bedding. A heat wave last week may have weakened the flock and helped bring thi...

Chicken Coop Architecture

Mr. Homegrown

February 27, 2010

Animals, Chickens

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I have a guest post over on re-nest.com on how to build a chicken coop: “Architect meet your client: the chicken. You’re about to become a coop buildin’ Frank Gehry. Keeping chickens is mostly about figuring out their housing arrangement. The rest is easy—chickens are a lot less trouble than a dog. Now I wish I could offer a one-size-fits-all chicken coop plan, but living situations and climates vary. Instead, I’ll offer...

Talkin’ Chicken

Mr. Homegrown

December 5, 2008

Animals, Chickens

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One of the Homegrown Evolution Hens taking care of our termite problem last week We’re in the Los Angeles Times today “clucking” about chickens. We share mention with fellow Los Angeles urban homesteading bloggists Dakota Witzenburg and Audrey Diehl, who write Green Frieda. Witzenburg designed an amazing coop, complete with a green roof planted with succulents that you can see on Green Frieda here. In other chicken related new...

Terror of Tiny Town

Mr. Homegrown

July 9, 2008

Animals, Chickens, Gardening, Self Watering Containers, Vegetable Gardening

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...). These pop bottle containers look like they’d work well for starting seeds, as they provide a constant source of water. Nance Klehm, another intrepid Chicago resident, informed us that someone just gave her two bantam chickens for her backyard, the perfect compliment to her chihuahuas. Some say that bantams are better for smaller backyards due to their diminutive size. Readers with bantam experience please let us know what you think about...

Playin’ Possum

Mr. Homegrown

October 26, 2010

Pests

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Since it happened too fast to take a picture I offer, thanks to the interwebs, this image of former Secretary of State of Florida Katherine Harris holding an opossum. When I stepped out into the backyard early this morning to let the chickens out, I found an opossum just outside the coop eyin’ my ladies. It ran off well before I got anywhere near the coop. Since our dog passed on I’ve noticed an uptick in backyard critters....

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Chicken Coop Architecture

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