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Mongolian Giant Sunflower

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening
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the native sunflowers that reseed themselves every year I think I̵7;ll plant a few Mongolian Giants each summer. If you̵7;ve got a favorite sunflower variety, either ornamental or edible, please leave a comment. Mrs. Homestead here: Turns out sunflowers can also help clean up radioactive contamination. Good to know! They̵7;re planting them in Fukushima. (via Boing Boing)...

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Plastic or Wood?

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
4 Comments
plastic on the ocean drives home the point that we need to drastically cut back our consumption of plastics and only use them for essentials] Okay, these are the new rules. We are going to phase as many plastics out of the homestead as we can. We won̵7;t toss what we have in the landfill right now, but when it is time to replace it, this is how it̵7;s going down: Wood and metal utensils instead of plasticGlass storage containers instea...

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The Three Sisters

Mr. Homegrown
Permaculture, Vegetable Gardening
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Due to the rigors of finishing our book The Urban Homesteader due out from Process Media next spring we were late getting around to planting our parkway vegetable garden. To review, the parkway is that space between the sidewalk and the street that belongs to the city but is the responsibility of the homeowner to maintain. The city, of course, wants us all to plant a lawn so that fat people can easily plop out of their Escalades unimpeded. We de...

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Flower Gardening Class at the Huntington

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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Our friend Tara Kolla is teaching a flower gardening class at the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino this coming Saturday Oct. 2nd from 10 a.m. to noon. From the class description: “Save money at the flower market by growing your own organic blooms. Urban farmer Tara Kolla of Silver Lake Farms shares tips for growing seasonal flowers that make beautiful arrangements in the home.” I can̵7;t say enough good things abo...

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Photo Tour of the Root Simple Compound

Mr. Homegrown
Design
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New, as yet unnamed, kitten enjoying homebrew. Photo by Emily Ho for re-nest. In case you̵7;ve tired of the continuous coverage of Osama Bin Laden̵7;s compound, how about a look at ours? Writer and photographer Emily Ho sure did a nice job putting together a photo tour of our crib over at re-nest in a post entitled “Kelly and Erik̵7;s Urban Farm.” Funny, when I look at our house I see all the work I have left to...

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We’ve taken the flowers out of our hair

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Bikes, Chickens, Thoughtstylings
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s SUV at a filling station in Berkeley. More exciting to us was discovering that our base of operations in the Mission was a mere block from the infamous Symbionese Liberation Army safe house where heiress Patty Hearst became urban guerrilla Tanya. We have a feeling we̵7;ll see the return of revolutionary noms de guerre in the coming few years and when that happens we̵7;ll see Tom ditch the SUV for two wheeled transit on Berkeley̵7;s...

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See Homegrown Revolution this Saturday!

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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Homegrown Revolution has never been to Burning Man, but we̵7;re big fans of the movie The Wicker Man and we figure it̵7;s probably similar, which is why we̵7;re happy to announce that we̵7;ll be doing a brief appearance at the Los Angeles Burning Man Decompression this Saturday October 13th in support of our book The Urban Homesteader, due out next May from Process Media. The Burning Man Decom will take place on Sante Fe between...

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Gathering of Community Gardeners

Homegrown Neighbor
Events, Gardening
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of a community garden to attend, just interested in community building and gardening. There will be workshops and discussions on topics such as vegetable gardening, composting, native plants, beekeeping and even a workshop on urban chickens co-taught by yours truly, Homegrown Neighbor. The entire day Saturday is free, but a $10 donation is requested to cover operating expenses. I recommend you go and pay them $100, because that is what this event...

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Secrets In Your Pantry?

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
30 Comments
because I would go through them like a crack addict). But we do have plenty of other dodgy convenience foods picked up at Trader Joes and consumed on those evenings we̵7;re too tired to cook. While the image of the urban homesteader is one who dines on nothing but wholesome veggies, backyard eggs and artisinal canning projects, the truth is that we̵7;re all human and live in a world where Cheez Doodles* practically grow on trees. In fact...

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