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Quick Breads

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Food
6 Comments
Here at the Homegrown Revolution compound we used to make our own sourdough bread. In fact we used the exhaustive, fetishistic and ridiculously detailed instructions to be found in Nancy Silverton’s book Breads from the La Brea Bakery. Silverton did for bread what Starbucks did for coffee, before she arrived on the scene America was a Wonder bread wasteland but now, in our coast to coast boho yuppified age, you can even find decent La Bre...

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Appletastic Apple Cake

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
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e is good apples. The better the apple, the better the cake. Wells prefers acidic cooking apples for this recipe, recommending Cortland, Gala or Gravenstein. But she says sweeter cooking apples, like Jonagold, are good too. I used Fujis because that’s what I had on hand. You’ll need: Equipment: A 9 inch springform baking pan. (These are pans with sides which open up and disengage from the bottom.)  If you don’t have one, you co...

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How To Design a Garden Step III: Pathways

Mr. Homegrown
Garden Design, Gardening
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...concept is scalable to any piece of land large or small. Put paths where people walk Avoid what’s called in the landscape architecture biz “vanity paths,” i.e. paths that look good but aren’t actually used. If people are taking a shortcut, make that a path! Path size A comfortable path is probably no smaller than 18 inches. If you’re designing a public garden where wheelchair accessibility is an issue make the path...

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The Return of the Fraternal Society

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
35 Comments
generation simply did not join fraternal organizations and membership swiftly declined until just recently. To some extent, Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous have fulfilled some of the roles fraternal organizations used to play. And women entering the workforce means that there is less time for the after work hijinks of the lodge room. A new generation of men now reaching middle age is looking into Freemasonry once again, and some of...

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Bottle Cap Wreath

Homegrown Neighbor
Domesticus
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Homegrown Neighbor here: I love Christmas. I love eating cookies, getting together with friends and family and of course, an excuse to make things. I was inspired this weekend to get a little crafty. My front door needed a wreath and I have a huge collection of beer bottle caps so of course I made a bottle cap wreath. I used a simple piece of wire as a form and a lot of hot glue. I tied the wire around a ceramic bowl to shape it. That’s...

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Advances in Gardening Series: The Fan

Mrs. Homegrown
Garden Design, Gardening, Herbal Medicine, Herbs
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...you. Everything is pretty rough and ragged right now, but it will be fun to report back in a couple months and do a compare/contrast. The Concept: Above you see the bones of my herb fan (and lots of chaos beyond). This space used to be my herb patch, which consisted of a bunch of random plantings, some perennial, some seasonal. It somewhat useful and occasionally attractive, but  didn’t earn its keep. So what I’ve done is split my he...

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Animal Tracking

Mrs. Homegrown
Animals, Preparedness, Resources
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...#8220;Who is eating my cilantro down to nubs?” With my new knowledge set, I can answer these questions by setting up a track trap. A track trap is an area of soil smoothed flat to capture animal tracks. In this class we used two methods: one was to drag a big, flat sack full of dirt (for weight) across stretches of open ground to smooth and compress the soil. When made in the evening, these clear spaces catch the prints of any animals that...

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Tree Tobacco as a Stinging Nettle Cure

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Foraging
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nettle stings is Jewelweed, but I don’t believe it grows in the southwest–at least I’ve never seen it. Tree tobacco is a good substitute for folks in our region Native Americans smoked Nicotiana glauca and used it as a topical medicine. It is poisonous if taken internally. A late note from Kelly, who is out of town and so didn’t get to consult on this post before it went up:  As Erik says here, Nicotiana glauca totally w...

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Are Raised Beds a Good Idea?

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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Raised bed fail. Our appalling parkway beds. Extra demerits for having used treated lumber! * Raised beds have some pluses and minuses. Lately I’ve been thinking about their drawbacks. Namely: Cost How fast they dry out in a hot climate. Now I can also think of a few reasons one might want to grow vegetables in a raised bed: You do a soil test (and you should do a soil test, especially if you live in an urban area) and the res...

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Compost Pail Comparison

Homegrown Neighbor
Composting
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Homegrown Neighbor here: Just a quick product review. Containers to hold your kitchen scraps are now common accoutrements sold in home stores. The idea is you fill them up as you prepare food and they are able to store the coffee grounds and broccoli stems without getting any flies or foul smells until you have a chance to get out to the compost pile. I used to use a large yogurt container for this and store it in the fridge. The problem was,...

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