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Food Preservation Resources

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Food Preservation
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Due to a popular post on making prickly pear jelly, we get a lot of emails asking for advice on canning. So I thought I̵7;d list three favorite food preservation resources. I like to go to respected sources when canning for reasons of both safety and reliability. While botulism is fairly rare, it̵7;s a highly unpleasant way to pass this vale of tears. But beyond the safety issue, if I̵7;m going to go through the work of canning, I w...

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How to Homestead

Mr. Homegrown
Self Watering Containers
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Homegrown Evolution̵7;s Self Watering Container video is up on the brand new site How to Homestead, described by its creators as: “the only site on the web providing you with a collection of how to homestead videos to stream or download. No longer relegated to the rural sphere, homesteading can be done anywhere and we are here to show you how.” With many homesteading activities, from chicken slaughtering to tortellini making, int...

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Revised and Expanded

Mr. Homegrown
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...

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Urban Livestock and Bikes!

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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India: chickens and bikes in a photo by Shabbir Siraj Urban Livestock Workshop Homegrown Evolution will be hosting an urban livestock workshop at our humble abode in Silver Lake on March 1st from 1-4pm. We̵7;ll be talkin̵7; chicken, permaculturist Joan Stevens will be rapping about rabbits and Leonardo Chalupowicz will share his recent experience of becoming a “backwards” beekeeper. We̵7;ll discuss how to integrate thes...

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Urban Farming in Oakland

Mr. Homegrown
Urban Farming
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Public radio station KCRW has an excellent interview with urban farmer and writer Novella Carpenter. Carpenter has pigs, goats, ducks, chickens and more all on a small lot in Oakland, California. You can listen to the radio interview here (along with some other interesting segments on hunting caribou, cooking pasta, roasting peppers, and more) on chef Evan Kleiman̵7;s show Good Food. You can also check out Carpenter̵7;s blog, meaningfulp...

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Podcasts for the Urban Homesteader

Mr. Homegrown
Resources
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Let̵7;s face it, mainstream radio programming, both talk and music, stinks. Podscasting democratizes the medium. Anyone with a microphone and laptop can make and distribute a podcast and, while quality varies, there̵7;s a huge amount of excellent, highly specialized programming available. So should be on the iPods of urban homesteaders? I̵7;ve got a few suggestions: Survival Podcast We just appeared on this podcast, which is hosted...

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Back to the Ranch

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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Ranch photo from the Huntington̵7;s Ranch blog. I̵7;ve never had so much fun at a symposium as I did at the Huntington̵7;s urban agriculture blow-out this weekend. The two day event launched the Huntington̵7;s new experimental urban agricultural station known as the “Ranch” and featured a diverse bunch of speakers. The Ranch will provide much needed information on edible landscapes and food forestry, particul...

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Is Urban Homesteading Over With?

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Bread, Chickens, Food, Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Transportation
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ot changed, specifically the uncertain future of fossil fuels. I̵7;m not trading my trips to the feed store for a shopping spree at Hot Topic anytime soon. So I thought I̵7;d plug a few search terms relating to urban homesteading into Google Trends to see what is going on. This is, of course, highly unscientific–Google Trends may just reflect media generated interest, not what people are actually doing. Here̵7;s what I found:...

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Home Food Preservation Resources

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Food Preservation, Resources
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I̵7;m honored to have been included in this year̵7;s class of the Los Angeles Master Food Preservers, a program offered by our local extension service to train volunteers to teach food preservation in under-served communities. I thought I would share the textbook resources from the class as they are an excellent set of reference books for your homesteading library. And many are available for free online. Like all information from the ex...

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Reasons and Resources for Growing Your Own Grains at Home

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Resources
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The world̵7;s smallest patch of Sonora wheat Reasons to grow grain Why grow some of your own grain? I can think of a bunch of reasons: You can plant unusual varieties The large amount of biomass for your compost pile Forage for livestock Easy to grow and maintain Part of a rotational strategy for maintaining healthy, disease free soil Know that your grain is not contaminated with pesticides How to grow grain  Growing grain is p...

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