Saturday Tweets: Compacted Soil, Bikes and Mirrored Headboards

March 26, 2016

...ed out." https://t.co/xomF590bf0 #CAdrought — Ed Joyce (@EdJoyce) March 24, 2016 Spirituality of food: how mindful cooking can spark gratitude – https://t.co/UiWCXxN4qr @binderpdx pic.twitter.com/ZMxkLYLO6U — Danielle Nierenberg (@DaniNierenberg) March 24, 2016 Lack of bike lanes & wrong way riding account for 13.6% of older adult fatalities in LA. Data busts stereotypes. #visionzero @VisionZeroLA — LACntyBikeCoalition (@lacbc) March 24, 2016 More...

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Chicken of the Woods

Mr. Homegrown

November 22, 2019

Food, Foraging

...calyptus. The very same mushroom pundits suggest thoroughly cooking all Laetiporus. I can report having consumed a lot of the mushroom we foraged with no ill effects. It was, in fact, one of the most delicious mushrooms I’ve ever consumed. But one should not trust the musings of an aging urban homesteading blogger when foraging for mushrooms. Find yourself a local mushroom nerd or run it past your cats. That said, don’t be too fearful either or yo...

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A Homegrown Revolution manifesto by way of a short (true) story.

Mr. Homegrown

February 21, 2007

Bikes

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1. Fitness is part of the urban homesteading thing So on our daily bike ride to the downtown YMCA we spotted four tires laying by the side of the road. 2. Try to grow as much food as you can Tires are a great way to grow potatoes–we’ll explain this when we try it ourselves. Meanwhile you can read about doing this, as well as many other uses for old tires in the informative archives of Backwoods Home Magazine. 3. Cargo bikes rule Later on in the d...

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La Alternativa

Mr. Homegrown

September 17, 2006

Resources

...tree. What we like most about Gálvez is that she is a strong proponent of urban gardening, maximizing every available space for food, a contrast to Martha Stewart’s useless pesticide and fertilizer drenched flower gardens. See the the film Power of Community How Cuba Survived Peak Oil for more on Cuba’s inventive urban gardening. While we hope that the US does not face a Cuban style economic crisis, we at SurviveLA believe that it’s time for la a...

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Dog Cheese

Mr. Homegrown

April 1, 2007

Food, Recipes

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...nd in our nation’s supermarkets simply isn’t worthy of the table. As urban homesteaders we’re particularly interested in finding sources of food in our dense concrete jungles, and we are not alone. The movement is full of solutions to small scale animal husbandry: from pigmy goats, to pot-bellied pigs, city dwellers are trying to do that farm thing in the city–but sometimes with limited success. So we were thrilled to find out that one of the best...

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