Search Results for: label/urban farming/page/7/2011/04/making-it

581 results

Meet the Gophinator

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Pests
15 Comments
Ranch is one of those Gophinator fans, who stressed avoiding the cheap traps available at big box stores. The Gophinator is sturdy, easy to set and made out of stainless steel that lasts much longer than cheaper traps. To use it you need to dig around and find the main subway line the gophers ride. Scott hooks up a wire and a stake to the traps to remember where they are placed. The Gophinator is manufactured by Trapline products and you can orde...

Continue reading…

The Horror

Mr. Homegrown
Bikes
1 Comment
...but both make us cranky. Our crankiness leaves us at a loss for words, so instead of a lengthy post we offer a few bike related links: Bike Snob NYC has a nice essay on why cycling is a fringe activity, which may explain why it̵7;s one of the least favorite topics on Homegrown Revolution according to a poll we did last year. Hint: it has something to do with aesthetics. And for the bike fetishists out there, Bike Snob̵7;s deconstructions...

Continue reading…

Cargo Bike Roundup

Mr. Homegrown
Bikes
9 Comments
llows for the installation of two huge pannier bags and a seat. You provide the bike–I used a cheap 1980s era hardtail mountain bike. I̵7;ve had my FreeRadical since 2006 and can̵7;t say enough good things about it. I can easily pack four bags of groceriesin the generously sized bags and still easily glide through traffic in Los Angeles. And I̵7;ve used it to go bike camping. A few years ago Xtracycle teamed with Surley to make...

Continue reading…

Row Cover as an Insect Barrier

Mr. Homegrown
Vegetable Gardening
13 Comments
It ain̵7;t pretty but it works. As one would expect, cabbage leaf worms love cabbage and nearly every other member of the brassica species.  Which  is why I̵7;ve become a real fan of row cover material as an insect barrier. The perp in question. It rarely freezes here so I use the thinnest row cover possible, specifically a product called Agribon-15. If you live in a cooler climate and want to use row cover for frost pr...

Continue reading…

Al Pacino Closed My Bike Lane

Mr. Homegrown
Bikes, Thoughtstylings
10 Comments
It̵7;s the classic urban cycling problem: when faced with the indignities of riding in a car-centric city like Los Angeles, do you make it all one big fun challenge or become what Bikesnob calls “the righteous cyclist?”  Righteous cyclists, according to Bikesnob, are “convinced that the very act of turning the pedals will actually restore acres and acres of rainforest, suck smog from the sky and refreeze the ice caps....

Continue reading…

Preparedness Now!

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness, Reviews
2 Comments
SurviveLA staff attended a fabulous survival salon hosted by the Process Media/Feral House revolutionaries to promote Aton Edwards hip new book Preparedness Now! Aton̵7;s informative and well designed book is a fresh look at a subject that is usually the domain of nutcase libertarians and Mormons. Aton is neither and the book has many useful tips for us urban dwellers with chapters on shelter, transportation, self-defense, and a collection o...

Continue reading…

Eat Food, Mostly Plants, Not too Much

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
7 Comments
In the course of writing and researching our book, The Urban Homestead, coming out this June, we learned a lot about contemporary agricultural practices. And what we learned sure ain̵7;t pretty. It has made our trips to the supermarket, to supplement the food we grow at home, a series of moral dilemmas. Where did this food come from? How was it grown or raised? What are these mysterious ingredients? Our book contains practical how-to advice...

Continue reading…

Saturday Linkages: Forklift Furniture and Pickled Turnips

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
1 Comment
...ot-dog-encrusted shrimp tempura pizza, with mayonnaise: http://boingboing.net/2013/02/06/pizza-hut-chinas-hot-dog-enc.html … Yuckylicious: Salami Bouquet http://yuckylicious.blogspot.com/2013/02/salami-bouquet.html?spref=tw … Urban Farm Magazine owner BowTie sold – Business – The Orange County Register http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bowtie-414242-fancy-company.html … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow...

Continue reading…

A New and Improved Self Irrigating Pot System

Mr. Homegrown
Self Watering Containers
10 Comments
A very cool improvement on the self irrigating pot (SIP) idea from Larry Hall of Minnesota. Rather than the two bucket system we̵7;ve blogged about in the past (see a roundup of our SIP resources here), Hall uses one long rain gutter to supply water. He̵7;s even got a clever double rain gutter system for growing strawberries that I̵7;m tempted to try on our back patio. I spotted this video on Inside Urban Green always a good sourc...

Continue reading…

A Bicyclist’s Bill of Rights Part II

Mr. Homegrown
Bikes
6 Comments
...ns in this old film would be cited for jaywalking, the cyclists for “impeding traffic”, and the various equestrians and carriages would be harassed by the entitled, luxury car driving hordes. And while San Francisco still has its trolleys, most cities, including Los Angeles, ripped up the tracks in the 1950s. This unquestioned idea that our streets are for cars not people would be extremely offensive to our founding fathers. Since it costs, on av...

Continue reading…