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Saturday Linkages: Off-Grid Living, Urban Velo, Meat Glue, Home Depot and Dandelions

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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Happy Cinco de Mayo! Amazing photos of people living off-the-grid in the United States: http://boingboing.net/2012/05/03/photos-of-people-living-off-th.html This week in TSA awfulness: a recap of recent American airport atrocities: http://boingboing.net/2012/05/02/this-week-in-tsa-awfulness-a.html New issue of Urban Velo: http://www.urbanvelo.org/issue31/index.html Meat Glue (not to be confused with pink slime): http://boingboing.net/2...

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The New Urban Forager

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Foraging
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On a hot, humid day along Houston̵7;s Buffalo Bayou, in the shadow of four abandoned concrete silos, a maggot infested corpse of a pit bull lies splayed across a sheet of black plastic. Nearby, a pile of asphalt roofing material blocks the path I̵7;m taking down to one of the most polluted waterways in Texas. Not a promising beginning to an urban food foraging expedition.(Read the rest of our foraging essay via Reality Sandwich)...

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Spike 1998-2010

Mrs. Homegrown
Animals
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Our much loved 12 year old Doberman passed tonight. It̵7;s been a horrible day spent going back and forth to the emergency vet, but he went fast, which was a blessing. Right now we̵7;re blindsided. The house feels like it has a crater in the middle of it. He̵7;s been with us since he was a puppy, so we really don̵7;t know how to get along without him anymore. His name was Spike, unless it was Deiter, which was also his name. He...

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Summer 2010 Tomato Report

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Gardening
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Tomato season began inauspiciously with unseasonably cold weather for Southern California. I simply couldn̵7;t get any seeds to germinate. Thankfully, Craig of gardenedibles.com came to the rescue with a couple of seedlings for us. Here̵7;s a recap of our tomato successes and failures: Red Pear. I̵7;ve grown this one before. It̵7;s a plump, ribbed, meaty tomato. It̵7;s flavorful and amazing both fresh and made into sauce. Cr...

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Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Dealing With the Crisis of Overconnection

Mr. Homegrown
Reviews, Thoughtstylings
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All too often in recent months I̵7;ve found myself pulled into a vortex of emails, Facebook updates, Twitter feeds and just plain mindless internet surfing sessions.  Let̵7;s face it, the screens in our lives are highly addictive and who among us actually feels better after an info-crack bender? Published in 2010, William Power̵7;s Hamlet̵7;s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age , is a r...

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Happy Thanksgiving, Now Go Buy Something

Mr. Homegrown
Miscellaneous
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We̵7;re kidding. Well, sort of. Hopefully you̵7;ll negotiate a truce with your family today to forgo expensive and wasteful holiday gift giving. Like us, you probably are also heavy users of the public library. But just in case you need to find the right gift for the fanatical urban homesteader in your life we̵7;ve opened a Homegrown Evolution Amazon Store which contains books and tools that we actually own and use around our humble...

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Picture Sundays: Uncle Sam Calls For Fruit Plantings On Every Farm & Suburban Homestead

Mrs. Homegrown
Picture Sundays
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At a lecture at last week̵7;s National Heirloom Exposition, Gary Nabhan passed around this in-house newspaper directed at the sales force working for Stark Brothers Nursery in 1946. To assist the Government̵7;s new Home FRUIT PLANTING campaign, Stark Bro̵7;s have been conducting a huge Direct-Mail drive to create interest in this important subject. Inquiries from the huge Direct-Mail Campaign are referred to YOU as soon as you start...

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Countdown

Mrs. Homegrown
Events
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Our new book comes out just about a month–April 26th–and today two super-advance copies came to us by mail. Believe me, it̵7;s awfully strange to see something that has existed only as computer files suddenly materialize on your porch! We realize we haven̵7;t given our new book a formal introduction yet, so here goes.  Making It: Radical Home-Ec for a Post Consumer World is our follow up to The Urban Homestead . The...

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