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

September 16, 2012

At a lecture at last week’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 Government’s new Home FRUIT PLANTING campaign, Stark Bro’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...

The Trees are Rooting

Mr. Homegrown

August 3, 2012

Thoughtstylings

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Spotted in the latest edition of the SkyMall, this mash-up of sports marketing and the walking/talking tree things from Lord of the Rings. Yet another item to add to my catalog of questionable garden art. Note from Kelly: Ack!!! I can’t believe Erik posted this. These things are a crime against both nature and aesthetics–even more so than most items in the SkyMall catalog. And now, you too will have to live with this image burned i...

DIY Christmas Trees

Mrs. Homegrown

December 11, 2012

Design

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A while ago Erik posted a link to an Instructable on how to make chairs out of scrapwood. William, author of that project, just let us know that he’s done a holiday Intructable on how to make a cute and quick modernist “flat pack” Christmas tree. This sent me into an internet rabbit hole, wherein I procrastinated for a long time by reading about homemade Christmas-tree-like-structures. Two favorites: 1) The Mountain Dew Christ...

I See Men as Trees Walking

Mr. Homegrown

February 22, 2008

Thoughtstylings

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Above, the image of a “Vegetable Caterpillar”, an unlucky hybrid between vegetable and insect, from an essay by Lily Pepper on the implications of animal/vegetable hybrids brought about by advances in genetic manipulation. Read this excellent essay in the current issue of Steps Magazine here....

The glass is half full–even if it’s full of greywater

Mrs. Homegrown

June 24, 2010

Animals, Food, Gardening, Mistakes, Thoughtstylings

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Mrs. Homegrown here: In this blog and in our books, we’ve talked a lot about the importance of accepting failure as part of the process of living a more homegrown lifestyle. Disasters of different sorts are inevitable. Sometimes they’re part of the learning process. Other times they’re acts of nature that you just have to shrug off. This year we’ve had lots of failures in the agricultural line. It’s been the theme...

Tree Care Disasters

Mr. Homegrown

February 15, 2012

Gardening, Trees

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Photo from Weeding Wild Suburbia A fierce windstorm on the night of November 20 of last year left in its wake the evidence of years of negligent tree care in Southern California. A good arborist and crew cost money, and too many homeowners, landlords and municipalities go the cheap route and hire the first idiot with a chainsaw they can find. A local blog I just discovered Weeding Wild Suburbia, has a nice summary of things you can do...

Countdown

Mrs. Homegrown

March 24, 2011

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, it’s awfully strange to see something that has existed only as computer files suddenly materialize on your porch! We realize we haven’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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Coffee Chaff Chickens

Mrs. Homegrown

January 3, 2010

Animals, Chickens, Composting

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d trees we’re shoveling into our hen house, and as we all know, trees don’t grow on trees. But what’s a good alternative to shavings? Yesterday, Lyanda Haupt, author of Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness , a beautifully written book about crows and the path of an urban naturalist, posted about an intriguing chicken bedding possibility: coffee chaff, a byproduct of coffee roasting. You should go read about i...

Homegrown Evolution in Chicago

Mr. Homegrown

May 9, 2009

Events

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for a fun class on how to make a sub-irrigated planter (SIP) out of two buckets. As a bonus, meet Homegrown Evolution blogger and author Erik Knutzen, who will be co-teaching the class and signing copies of his book The Urban Homestead. Bring some gloves and learn how to make and plant your own SIP. Leave with everything you need for a summer of fresh heirloom tomatoes–all you add is about 6 hours of good sun per day in your yard, balcony, or roo...

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

The Trees are Rooting

DIY Christmas Trees

I See Men as Trees Walking

The glass is half full–even if it’s full of greywater

Tree Care Disasters

Countdown

Comrades

Coffee Chaff Chickens

Homegrown Evolution in Chicago