Gardening in an Apartment Windowsill

July 12, 2008

dening is not about the quantity of space one controls or the weight of the food harvested. It’s about a love for beauty, an attention to detail and an appreciation of good food. Imagine if all our unused or neglected urban spaces were as beautiful and useful as Helen’s garden. We’d live in a world transformed, one windowsill at a time....

Whiteflies

Mr. Homegrown

July 18, 2008

Pests

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c zones, numbered one through five, with the first zone being our house and kitchen gardens and the outer zones being less cultivated and more wild spaces. Mollison and Holmgren’s zones are easily miniaturized for small urban yards. Trees that don’t need much attention can go towards the back, the chickens a little closer and the vegetables and herbs can benefit from being close at hand. For additional information on whiteflys see the...

Greywater Workshops in Los Angeles

Mr. Homegrown

September 30, 2011

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around the world. Learn the “how and why” of composting toilets and urine reuse, see projects from Mexico, China, Sweden, Zimbabwe, and the United States. Learn about options for homescale composting toilets from urban to rural applications, operation and maintenance needs, and common problems and solutions....

Upcoming Classes: Edible Gardening and Vermicomposting

Mr. Homegrown

September 29, 2011

Events

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vermicomposting with a dry toilet or pet waste composting system* How to best use your castings in the garden* Tips for the apartment dweller* What to do with all those extra worms… And more! Nancy Klehm is a long-time urban forager and grower, ecological system designer, artist and intrepid soil builder. She spent over five years designing and running a closed-loop vermicomposting project in Chicago that used 100’s of thousands of worm...

Content Mills: Pimples on the Information Superhighway

Mr. Homegrown

March 1, 2011

Thoughtstylings

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Yes, there really is a “How to Get Rid of Pimples on the Buttocks” video on eHow. If only they had a how to get rid of eHow article. Google’s powerful search engine has become an essential component of the urban homesteading toolbox. From diagnosing tomato diseases to cooking Ethiopian injera Google has the answers. In recent years, unfortunately, low quality “content mills,” such as ezinearticles and suite...

Car Free in the City of Cars

Mr. Homegrown

June 27, 2008

Bikes

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ore info: Joe Linton 213/220-1608 This talk is sponsored by L.A. Eco-Village in association with: CICLE, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, and CRSP in support of the Los Angeles Bike Summit planned for the fallby the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. And a special thanks to Joe Linton and everyone at the L.A. Eco-Village for inviting us to speak last night!...

The Great Sunflower Project

Mr. Homegrown

April 1, 2008

Animals, Bees

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Help determine the health of urban bees with a citizen science experiment called the Great Sunflower Project. It’s simple and free. Just register at the Great Sunflower Project website and you’ll be sent a package of wild annual sunflower seeds ( Helianthus annuus). Twice a month you’ll get an email to remind you to time how long it takes for five bees to visit your sunflowers. Sounds like it has drinking game potential, though...

A Review of Williams-Sonoma’s Agrarian Line

Mr. Homegrown

April 12, 2012

Thoughtstylings

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Last week upscale retalier Williams-Sonoma announced an urban homesteady line of goods they call “Agrarian”. A number of Root Simple readers responded to the news after I linked to a Wall Street Journal article about the Agrarian line. One reader likened the “Agrarian” items to Marie Antoinette’s 18th century cosplay mini-farm. Another hoped that mainstream acceptance of things like chicken coops and beehives might...

Mulberries

Mr. Homegrown

April 7, 2008

Food, Foraging

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nd and become convinced you’re going to croak. We wonder if this is a myth, like the story about boy scouts roasting hot dogs on Oleander sticks (yes, Oleander is very poisonous, but apparently the boy scout story is an urban legend). We found the Mulberries sweet and delicious. It’s a fruit that doesn’t ship well, hence its absence in our crummy supermarkets....

Introducing Nancy Klehm With Tips on Growing Jerusalem Artichokes

Nancy Klehm

April 10, 2012

Gardening, Permaculture, Vegetable Gardening

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Photo by Ann Summa We’re very proud to welcome to the blog our good friend Nancy Klehm. Nancy is a radical ecologist, designer, urban forager, grower and teacher. Most importantly, unlike Kelly and I here in Los Angeles, she lives in a place subject that odd meteorological condition called “winter”, namely Chicago. We asked her to write posts for us for on gardening in a four-season climate and to add her expertise to...

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Gardening in an Apartment Windowsill

Whiteflies

Greywater Workshops in Los Angeles

Upcoming Classes: Edible Gardening and Vermicomposting

Content Mills: Pimples on the Information Superhighway

Car Free in the City of Cars

The Great Sunflower Project

A Review of Williams-Sonoma’s Agrarian Line

Mulberries

Introducing Nancy Klehm With Tips on Growing Jerusalem Artichokes