Help Plant a Garden — and Help a Local Eagle Scout

June 23, 2016

Events

...removed a large area of lawn, and on Friday they’ll be planting six fruit trees. It will transform the entrance to the church. Friday is supposed to be Taylor’s completion date, and there’s still a lot to do: installing headerboard (9am) composting the planting areas (morning) planting trees, flowers, vegetables (afternoon) assembling benches (all day) It’s a fun chance to work with an (exuberant) team of young scouts and to help get another sect...

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Olive Curing Update

Mr. Homegrown

May 4, 2020

Fruit Trees, Gardening

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...when the silvery underside of the leaves shimmer in a light breeze. Olive trees have deep symbolic associations in ancient Mediterranean cultures and the tree has an average lifespan of 500 years. There are a few trees, over 2,000 years old, that still produce fruit. If you live in the U.S. but not in a climate that supports olives, consider buying domestic olive oil and cured olives. Especially with olive oil, a lot of the imported stuff is adul...

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The Prints of Frances Gearhart

Mr. Homegrown

September 23, 2019

Design

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...Honor gift shop. Methinks we could all benefit from having more images of trees and mountains in our lives in addition to surrounding ourselves with, well, real trees and mountains. Museums should also include more work by women artists who make up just 2% of the world art market. If you’d like to see more of Gearhart’s work check out francesgearhart.com. The Minneapolis Institute of Art has an exhibition open through March that includes some of...

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Our Hot Streets Are an Opportunity

Mr. Homegrown

September 6, 2019

Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Design, Transportation, Water and Power

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...s 120.8º F (49.3º C). Being a crank I have two conclusions: 1. Let’s plant trees. 2. How about instead of painting streets gray we do something really radical and pull them up entirely and start cooling people rather than serving cars? According to the Los Angeles Times, “Recent research has found that when manufacturing emissions are taken into account, most cool pavements hurt the climate more than they help.” So, as is typical for our mayor Eri...

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Los Angeles: A New Beginning

Mr. Homegrown

February 15, 2019

Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Thoughtstylings, Transportation

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....” “Maybe that’s why we need ttttttt . . . trrrrrrr . . . trrreeeees . . . trees,” replied the mayor. “What’s a tree?” asked Lauren. “I think it’s some kind of self growing thing that makes oxygen and shade,” replied the mayor. “Won’t they block the solar panels?” asked Lauren. “Ba, ba, bu, buuuuuu . . . bus,” said the mayor. “Huh? Mr. Mayor are you okay?” said Lauren. “It’s . . . it’s like a car but carries over 100 people,” said the mayor. “We’l...

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