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Book Review: 1491

Mrs. Homegrown
Reviews
9 Comments
...though, is what is revealed through these stories about the relationship between nature and culture in pre-contact Americas. As with Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources , which we’ve reviewed here before, a picture rises of very active human management of natural resources. All across the Americas there is compelling evidence of intense landscape management practices which i...

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Fermenting culture wih Sandor Katz

Mrs. Homegrown
Fermentation, Food
5 Comments
...greater experience. He did say that if you have it, and can afford it, high-mineral natural salts are fantastic to use. • How much salt? That’s sort of a perennial question. For him, it’s a matter of taste. Other resources will give exact recommendations of salt per pound of vegetables. The more salt you use, the slower the fermentation will be, and the longer the end product will last. It will also, of course, be very salty. Less sa...

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Chicken Coop Deconstructed

Homegrown Neighbor
Animals, Chickens
10 Comments
...the area to have space devoted to an orchard, garden and farm. Right now it is home to a goat, a Vietnamese pot bellied pig, dozens of rabbits and two hens. As can be expected, the program hasn’t gotten the respect and resources it deserves in the last few years. Things look a little scraggly, the orchard is filled with weeds and most of the barns haven’t been touched in thirty years, now housing only spiders. This program is special...

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Revolution: A New TV Series About Extreme Suburban Homesteading

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
35 Comments
...ind to the fact that our problems are political, social and spiritual and not solvable by technological/scientific means. No amount of corn ethanol or switchgrass will stave off the fact that the earth has a limited amount of resources. But, in the stories we tell ourselves, magical flash drives can still save the day and maybe even power the whole world. It’s also telling that the voice over in the opening credits of Revolution reflects a...

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Salsa Dancing in a World Without Oil

Mr. Homegrown
Events
1 Comment
...experiment in public space in the city of Los Angeles, imagining new ways in which such spaces could be utilized to make our communities more livable and engaged. It promotes community awareness, sharing, food safety, public resources, and organic gardening. LOVE APPLES is also a celebration of public art and of activated citizen artists. The festival doubles as a thank you to the range of artists, arts and community organizers whose assistance...

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Appropriate Tech is the New High Tech

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
3 Comments
...ssive Solar Water Heater Book, that you can access for free via the Build It Solar website at: http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/WaterHeating/ISPWH/ispwh.htm If any of you know of more appropriate tech books, blogs or resources worth looking at, please leave a comment. And thanks to the Homegrown Evolution reader who noticed our oddball interest in both appropriate tech and western esotericism and turned us on to the Archdruid....

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Aerated Compost Tea: Does it Work?

Mr. Homegrown
Composting, Gardening
15 Comments
nd whether ACT did or did not work for you. I’d like to gather some anecdotal reports for the story and your help is greatly appreciated. For those of you not familiar with ACT, here’s a good explanation with some resources via Permaculture Magazine: What is compost tea (and how do you make it)? On the con side of ACT, horticulturalist Linda Chalker-Scott has a set of pdfs as well as a long list of ACT studies on her gardening myths p...

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The Homegrown Mailbox: How and Where Do I Get My Soil Tested?

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Soil
9 Comments
...16www.bettersoils.com Test results very scientificNo recommendations Soil and Plant Laboratory, Inc.1594 N. Main StreetOrange, CA(714) 282-8777 FGL Environmental853 Corporation StreetSanta Paula, CA(805) 525-3824 USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service44811 N. Date AvenueLancaster, CA 93534-3136(661) 945-2604 Here’s a dirt cheap (pun intended) test for soil ph that you can do yourself. UPDATE: 7/7/09: Visiting journalist Michael Tortore...

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Of Stickers and Boomers

Mrs. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
5 Comments
...re is a call for us to rediscover our affection for the land. A plea for us to be stickers instead of boomers. That is, people who tend the land and honor its history and its stories instead of boomers who despoil our limited resources and move on, without thought, as if there will always be more to wealth to wring from nature, no matter what we do. Of course, Berry is an advocate of the small farmer (as we all should be) and his remarks have mu...

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Goat Worship: A Halloween Exclusive!

Mrs. Homegrown
Animals, Domesticus, Events, Goats
20 Comments
...port and educate one another Gloria produced a beautiful handout which she has given me in PDF form to share with you all out there in Internet Land. Download it here. It’s a great overview of the basics, with a list of resources at the end. It does focus on goat-keeping in the Los Angeles region, but it will be useful no matter where you live. Lots of goat porn to follow, interspersed with some of my notes. Steve and Gloria tellin...

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