A Review of Masanobu Fukuoka’s Sowing Seeds in the Desert

December 4, 2012

Gardening, Miscellaneous, Permaculture, Reviews

...ed by Chelsea Green. Fukuoka’s writing deals with the tricky practical and spiritual issues involved with our place in nature’s synergistic complexities. To intervene or not to intervene is often the question when it comes to what Fukuoka called his “natural farming” method. Fukuoka councils a humbleness before nature, a cessation of the materialist drive to understand and control. Fukuoka illustrates this approach in a pe...

Another way to deal with prickly pear stickers

Mr. Homegrown

October 18, 2010

Food, Gardening

9 Comments

...the pears. We live in the arid SW and have a lot of native cacti. The pears were very good this year because of the extra wet summer. In dry times we burn the stickers off the prickly pear so the cows will eat the leaves. It saves the cattle in some years. I take a propane torch and burn the stickers of the pears before I pick them. They turn very shinny like you had waxed them. Then just pick them with your bare hands. Sure saves a lot o...

Food Preservation Resources

Mr. Homegrown

December 4, 2011

Food, Food Preservation

2 Comments

Due to a popular post on making prickly pear jelly, we get a lot of emails asking for advice on canning. So I thought I’d list three favorite food preservation resources. I like to go to respected sources when canning for reasons of both safety and reliability. While botulism is fairly rare, it’s a highly unpleasant way to pass this vale of tears. But beyond the safety issue, if I’m going to go through the work of canning, I w...

Why We Travel By Train

Mr. Homegrown

April 27, 2011

Thoughtstylings

18 Comments

Amtrak ain’t this grand, but it’s a lot better than flying! Photo via the Library of Congress. We’re headed up to Northern California, Oregon and Washington to promote our new book Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World . And, with the exception of the San Francisco to Seattle leg, we’re traveling by train. Why do this when it’s more expensive, time consuming and probably makes our dear publis...

My Big Fat Greek Squash

Mr. Homegrown

September 17, 2009

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

12 Comments

Every time I visit my mom, her Greek neighbor pops over the fence to offer me seeds and plants. He visits Greece each summer and comes back with seeds for plants whose names he can’t translate into English. As a result I always have a few mystery Greek vegetables growing in the garden. This spring he gave me a squash seedling he had propagated. It grew into a massive vine and produced two winter squashes whose weight exceeded the capacit...

Supper for a buck?

Mrs. Homegrown

February 25, 2013

Bean Fest, Food

16 Comments

Recently someone asked me how much it cost us to make a loaf of no-knead bread. I had no idea, but was intrigued by the question, so I went home and did the math on the flour. We buy our flour in bulk from fine company called Central Milling through the Los Angeles Bread Baker’s Club. A 50lb bag of general purpose flour costs $30.00. This works out less per pound than the cheap-0 flour at the supermarket. We actually go through so much fl...

Root Simple Video Podcast Episode 1: How To Make a Sourdough Starter

Mr. Homegrown

November 10, 2012

Bread, Food, Videos

23 Comments

mixing flour and water. There’s no need for all the crazy things I’ve heard suggested: adding potatoes, grapes, yogurt and certainly not commercial yeast. And the yeast that makes sourdough happen is on the flour itself in far greater quantities than in the air. After following the simple steps I demonstrate in this video you’ll end up with a small amount of starter that you use to “inoculate” a larger batch of star...

Bean Fest, Episode 6: Walton’s Serbian Lima Beans

Mrs. Homegrown

September 24, 2010

Bean Fest, Food, Recipes

4 Comments

Mrs. Homegrown here: Welcome back to Bean Fest, our Friday focus on the wonderful world of beans. Our friend, Walton, sent in this recipe, which he got from friends. I don’t know anything about its Serbian-ness–whether this is a traditional dish there, or what. Maybe some of you can enlighten us. (I forgot to ask Walton.) [ETA: Walton wrote in. It is a genuine Serbian dish. The recipe was given to Walton by his friend's mom, Mrs. M...

The Sacred Chickens of Ancient Rome

Mr. Homegrown

June 12, 2012

Animals, Chickens

6 Comments

the armies, without omens being drawn from the sacred chickens. The most common method of drawing these omens consisted in examining the manner in which the chickens dealt with grain that was presented to them. If they ate it avidly while stamping their feet and scattering it here and there, the augury was favorable; if they refused to eat and drink, the omen was bad and the undertaking for which it was consulted was abandoned. When there w...

Least Farvorite Plant:–Heavenly Bamboo–Neither Heavenly nor Bamboo

Mr. Homegrown

September 30, 2010

Gardening, Thoughtstylings

12 Comments

Chickens assist in heavenly bamboo removal. About a year ago, while searching for a spot for our new and larger compost pile, Mrs. Homegrown suggested ripping out a stand of heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica) that occupied a shady spot in a corner of our backyard. My reaction? I think I said something like, “No way, it’s been there for twelve years and it took forever to reach three feet.” Some time later Homegrown N...

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A Review of Masanobu Fukuoka’s Sowing Seeds in the Desert

Another way to deal with prickly pear stickers

Food Preservation Resources

Why We Travel By Train

My Big Fat Greek Squash

Supper for a buck?

Root Simple Video Podcast Episode 1: How To Make a Sourdough Starter

Bean Fest, Episode 6: Walton’s Serbian Lima Beans

The Sacred Chickens of Ancient Rome

Least Farvorite Plant:–Heavenly Bamboo–Neither Heavenly nor Bamboo