Fruit Tree Update: Flavor Delight Aprium

June 11, 2013

en we didn’t know about “Backyard Orchard Culture” — which, in a nutshell, means keeping fruit trees small. This is also discussed on the Dave Wilson site. This is really important information for any homesteader....

Fallen Fruit

Mr. Homegrown

April 20, 2007

Events, Food, Foraging, Gardening

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Homegrown Revolution tagged along on a neighborhood tour with the beige jump-suit clad fruit foraging collective known as Fallen Fruit. Our capable guides, David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young, led a group of well over fifty folks through a hilly part of Silver Lake just above the 99 cent store in search of street grown loquats, (in great abundance right now) kumquats, oranges, lemons, bananas, carob trees and more. We all ended up bac...

Growing Greens Under Fruit Trees

Mr. Homegrown

January 25, 2012

Fruit Trees, Garden Design, Gardening, Permaculture, Vegetable Gardening

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In the photo above is Scott Kleinrock showing off a section of the edible garden he designed at the Huntington Gardens. At first glace it looks like a lot of weeds, but it’s a clever idea: growing greens in the understory of fruit trees. In this picture, which was taken last weekend, you see a field of: mallow daikon radish arugula mustard vetch calendula cabbage Except for the vetch, which helps build soil, all are edible and nutrit...

Least Favorite Plant: Ficus benjamina

Mr. Homegrown

February 7, 2010

Least Favorite Plant

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, unheralded, unfavorite curbside flora. I have no real love for these trees, per se, no sentimental attachment. They just express form and mass and scale and human intervention in a way that I enjoy, like nothing else in the urban landscape as I encounter it.” He’s wise to be neutral. A civil insurection broke out in Santa Monica over plans to replace ficus trees with ginko trees in the downtown area. Hunger strikes were threatened...

It Quacks Like a Duck

Mr. Homegrown

November 14, 2007

Animals

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The Happy Ducks of the Petaluma Urban Homestead It seems a new lifestyle is taking shape, in part born of the ashes of the World Trade Center, the aftermath of Katrina, and the endless resource wars our country feels the need to fight. There’s a great desire out there to “do something” and a refreshing DIY spirit of self-sufficiency is beginning to emerge. Two of the indicators of this new lifestyle seem to be the mixture o...

Revised and Expanded

Mr. Homegrown

June 7, 2010

Events

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A revised and expanded version of our book, The Urban Homestead is now available everywhere books are sold and via this website. And we have a new cover thanks to our fantastic publisher Process Media. No longer does the woman stand behind the man! As for the “expanded” part, new projects include:• How to sterilize jars and bottles• How to make infused oil• Six ways to preserve a tomato• How to make soda bread• How to store grain w...

Steal this Book!

Mr. Homegrown

May 28, 2008

Thoughtstylings

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Our book has been released! It’s available wherever books are sold, or you can get an autographed copy from us over on the right side of this page. Tell your friends and family! Blog, twitter, friend, digg and yell! From the press release: The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a burgeoning new movement: urbanites are becoming farmers. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, city dwellers are reconnecting with t...

Resources

These are our favorite web resources on various topics, and books which you’ll find on our bookshelves: General Home Ec/Appropriate Tech/DIY Living Mother Earth News How to Homestead Backwoods Home Magazine AfriGadget The Urban Homestead Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World Radical Homemakers The Integral Urban House Made by Hand Farm City The Natural Kitchen Country Wisdom and Know-How Wendell Berry’s ess...

Roundin’ up the Summer Urban Homesteading Disasters

Mr. Homegrown

August 18, 2011

Bread, Food, Gardening, Mistakes, Vegetable Gardening

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Everyday loaf on the left, “charity” loaf on the right. As we’ve noted in our books, part of the deal with this lifestyle is persevering through the inevitable disasters. Which means it’s time for a regular blog feature, the disaster roundup. Loafing Around I agreed to bake a few baguettes for a charity function this evening. Problem #1 is that I can’t do baguettes in my small oven so I decided to do a s...

Michael Tortorello on Urban Homesteading

Mr. Homegrown

August 11, 2011

Thoughtstylings

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Michael Tortorello, who wrote that nice piece about us a few months ago, “Living Large, Off the Land,” is one of my favorite writers on gardening and “urban homesteady” topics. He’s critical without being curmudgeonly and manages to separate the truth from the hype (and there’s an awful lot of hype in this movement!). Plus he managed to get an entire paragraph about my thyrsus into the New York Times. Thyrsus...

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Fruit Tree Update: Flavor Delight Aprium

Fallen Fruit

Growing Greens Under Fruit Trees

Least Favorite Plant: Ficus benjamina

It Quacks Like a Duck

Revised and Expanded

Steal this Book!

Resources

Roundin’ up the Summer Urban Homesteading Disasters

Michael Tortorello on Urban Homesteading