Picture Sundays: A Chicken Coop Made From a Trampoline

October 28, 2012

From the Homesteading/Survivalism Facebook page, a chicken coop made from a trampoline. Here’s a little more on the project. This coop appears to be a DIY variation on the Joel Salatin movable poultry pen. I’m assuming there’s a way to lock the chickens in the top part at night to keep out critters that might dig under the run. ...

Evolution is Evolving

Mrs. Homegrown

September 17, 2010

Miscellaneous

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ble. This means, to start, that we’re going to clean up the tags and rearrange all the links and stuff on the right side of the page. Then, a little bit down the road, we’re going to change our look. (!!!) I know it’s always a little traumatic when a blog you read regularly redesigns itself, but let’s face it, the place needs a fresh coat of paint. But again, that won’t be a for a bit. In the meanwhile, forgive any...

Aerated Compost Tea: Does it Work?

Mr. Homegrown

December 6, 2012

Composting, Gardening

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ewed literature on the subject. Most of the studies show, at best, mixed results. And, honestly, my bias is against gardening techniques that require gadgets or novel techniques with no analog in nature. I’ve also tried it myself and found that a thick mulch of plain compost seems to work better. That being said, I want to present a balanced story. I’m interested in hearing from readers about their ACT experiences. Have you tried it?...

A tasty Italian chard: Bieta Verde da Taglio

Mr. Homegrown

December 18, 2009

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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A few folks have written to ask what we’re growing in our winter vegetable garden and we’ve been late to reply. Since we’re in USDA zone 10 and seldom get freezing weather here in Los Angeles, we can grow year round. One of my favorites this winter has been a Swiss chard variety from Italy called Bieta Verde da Taglio or “Green cutting chard”. Verde da Taglio has thin stems and thick leaves. It ain’t as pretty...

Happy Thanksgiving, Now Go Buy Something

Mr. Homegrown

November 26, 2009

Miscellaneous

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ical urban homesteader in your life we’ve opened a Homegrown Evolution Amazon Store which contains books and tools that we actually own and use around our humble compound. Purchases made through the store and even other items you click through to will help support this website. A few items in I’d like to call attention to: Novella Carpenter’s Farm City Carpenter is a phenomenal writer and anyone who’s involved in the acti...

Lego-Robot Chickens

Mr. Homegrown

July 13, 2012

Animals, Chickens

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In response to our Monday post on clicker training chickens, Root Simple pal and fellow Master Food Preserver Diane Trunk posted a video on our Facebook page. Diane explains, Here’s a link to a silly video of our trained chickens. My son trained them to come running in response to a beep. The beep signaled that a lego-robot box (you’ll see) was going to open, and the hens would get their favorite treat: string cheese. Alas, these...

Chill Hour Calculator for California

Mr. Homegrown

December 15, 2011

Fruit Trees, Gardening

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Please excuse another California-centric post, but if you’re in the Golden State and like to geek out on keeping track of your chill hours here’s a handy tool bought to you by UC Davis: Cumulative Chilling Hours. Each year this page keeps track of chill hours between November 1 through end of February. If you know of a similar resource for other states/countries leave a link in the comments. As cool (so to speak) as this tool is, wh...

Shelter

Mr. Homegrown

June 26, 2009

Reviews

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al ideas and daydream of fantastical structures at once spiritual and playful. Like the Whole Earth Catalog, Shelter’s wide ranging and inclusive topics anticipated the non-hierarchical structure of the Internet. On one page you’re looking at Turkish rock houses, and on another geodesic domes built out of scrap materials. The lessons I’ve learned from Khan’s work are the importance of context (site, cultural, weather etc.)...

Growing Strawberries in a Self Irrigating Gutter (SIG).

Mr. Homegrown

March 19, 2013

Gardening, Self Watering Containers

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I got this idea from Larry Hall, who made a video showing how he uses gutters as self watering containers. In the first part of the video Larry shows how to use a gutter to supply water to a row of pots. In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system. I decided to build Hall’s self-irrigating gutter (let’s call it a SIG) to grow strawberries. Here’s how I did it: With some scrap wood I made a support system...

Low Tech Solar Heating with a Thermosyphon Collector

Mr. Homegrown

January 11, 2012

Solar, Water and Power

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Yet another great post from the folks at Build It Solar: a simple and low tech solar heating system called a thermosyphon collector mounted in the wall of a garage. It uses the same principle as the solar dehydrator we have on our garage roof–basically it’s just some clear plastic and a heat collector made out of black window screen. If your climate is cold and sunny (think Colorado) this would work nicely. Read the post to see a r...

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Picture Sundays: A Chicken Coop Made From a Trampoline

Evolution is Evolving

Aerated Compost Tea: Does it Work?

A tasty Italian chard: Bieta Verde da Taglio

Happy Thanksgiving, Now Go Buy Something

Lego-Robot Chickens

Chill Hour Calculator for California

Shelter

Growing Strawberries in a Self Irrigating Gutter (SIG).

Low Tech Solar Heating with a Thermosyphon Collector