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The Horror

Mr. Homegrown
Bikes
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Terrifying photo via Bike Snob NYC The day began with the discovery that our neighbor̵7;s roommate, practicing the kind of gardening we associate with crazy people and goats, had hacked off half the length of the native grape vine that we had counted on covering an ugly chain link fence. An innocent mistake, but evidence that some folks apparently don̵7;t know what grape vines look like and that they loose their leaves in the winter....

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Only at Home: Huntington Ranch Symposium Nov. 18

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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Not to be missed: the Huntington is putting on an exciting program this Friday November 18. I̵7;m going and hope to see some of you there. If you̵7;re interested in growing edibles in Southern California, this is the place to be! Only at Home: 2011 Huntington Ranch Symposium The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical GardensSan Marino, CA Marking the second year of Ranch operations, this one-day symposium focuses on aspects...

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Homegrown Revolution at the Alt-Car Expo

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Bikes
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Homegrown Revolution will be making an appearance at the Alt-Car expo this Saturday October 20th at 10:30 a.m. to pimp for the bicycle as an alternative to the electric and ethanol cars crowding the improvised showroom at the Santa Monica Airport. We̵7;ll be joined on a panel discussion by Jennifer Klausner of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and Joseph Linton of Livable Places. The panel is entitled “Getting out of the BoxR...

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Safety Films Night

Mr. Homegrown
Bikes
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rk Film Center is located at 1200 North Alvarado Street @ Sunset Blvd. Map This ain̵7;t a safety film and we won̵7;t be showing this gem on Sunday, but it reminds us that we need to write about the aesthetics of urban homesteading. Something about the three-way nexus of Germans, country music, and “new wave” speaks to the notion of growing food and keeping livestock in the city:...

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SUSTAINABLE LA @ Farmlab/Under Spring

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Miscellaneous
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Join Homegrown Revolution for the SUSTAINABLE LA film fest at the Farmlab/Under Spring. Curated by the fine folks at the Echo Park Film Center, the program will take place Saturday, December 8 at 7 pm. The evening begins with a potluck dinner so please bring food to share. Approximate Program Times: This Is The LA River: 7:30 Sustainable LA Shorts: 8:30 More info: www.farmlab.org On the program will be Homegrown Revolution̵7;s shor...

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On why our vegetable garden is such a disaster this year . . .

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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sign help. Oh, the humanity Fatigue and frustration–the double knockout punch of skunks and the hot weather left me on the ropes with little enthusiasm for ongoing gardening maintenance. Ego–forgetting that urban homesteading is not about self-sufficiency—to chase self-sufficiency is a fool’s errand. I should be happy just to have a few good salads and be thankful that I can buy good vegetables at a local farmer̵7;s market. I don...

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Meet the Gophinator

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Pests
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The Gophinator Thankfully, we don̵7;t have gophers, but dealing with them is one of the first questions we get when teaching vegetable gardening classes.  You can use raised beds lined with hardware cloth. But, other than target practice (a no-no in urban areas), most people I know with gopher problems end up using traps or zealous cats. Several sources have told me about the Cadillac of gopher traps, the aptly named “Gophina...

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California Agriculture Journal Online

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Bees, Resources
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The University of California has put 63 years worth of its journal California Agriculture online for convenient downloading at californiaagriculture.ucanr.org. There̵7;s plenty of detailed (peer reviewed!) nuggets for the home gardener between the pages of this scientific journal. Make sure to check out the article and video of UC Berkeley entomologist Gordon Frankie explaining what kinds of plants are best for attracting bees in your urban...

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Out of Water!

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness
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n earthquake. This leaves us pondering keeping water in steel drums, which we first learned about in Aton Edward̵7;s book Preparedness Now!, the first book in Process Media̵7;s Self-Reliance series (our book the Urban Homesteader, due out in May, is the third in this series). It̵7;s one of the more expensive options in water storage, with new drums costing several hundred dollars, but avoids the problem of an off taste that plastic ca...

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