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Weeds into Fertilizer

Homegrown Neighbor
Gardening
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...it ferments to share with you. Supposedly this will not only add nitrogen but also valuable trace minerals to my soil. While the stirring adds oxygen, overall this is an anaerobic process. The plants are sitting in stagnant water most of the time and apparently get quite stinky. But I have learned that stinky things, when applied in the garden, are often very good things. Cleaning the chicken coop always produces a good product for the garden....

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Scarlet Runner Bean Stew

Homegrown Neighbor
Appropriate Technology, Food, Gardening, Recipes
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...en it comes to dried beans I almost always do the overnight soak method. To soak beans overnight, simply place your beans in a large pot. Rinse them and pick out any stones or broken beans. Fill the pot up 3/4 of the way with water and let soak overnight or for at least five hours. After their soak you may need to add more water. The beans can soak up a lot. Then cook on medium to high heat for about an hour. Test a bean. How done you want your b...

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Return of Bean Friday: Spicy Mayocoba Beans

Mrs. Homegrown
Bean Fest, Food, Recipes
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...poon salt1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon7 oz. can chopped jalapenos *I had no chili powder so used lots of paprika plus a little bit of cayenne pepper as a substitute Put the beans in a big pot, cover them with a couple of inches of water and simmer until tender. When the beans are getting close to done, heat some oil in a deep skillet or a heavy bottomed pot and saute the onion until translucent. Then add the garlic and the rest of the spices, reservin...

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Capparis spinosa – Capers

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening
6 Comments
...than against her, or as we prefer to say–don’t fuck with nature. For those of you who live where it gets cold, fucking with nature means trying to grow a fig tree. For us it meant trying to grow a lawn, a foolish water-wasting mistake we made in our pre-SurviveLA days. Working with nature means finding plants that belong in a climate similar to your part of the world. We’re not native plant fascists and will gladly source plant...

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Be Idle

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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...rgin olive oil, or more to taste 40 large mint leaves (a blend of spearmint and peppermint if possible) Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 pound linguine, spaghetti, bucatini, or other string pasta 6 quarts boiling salted water 1 1/3 pint baskets (1 pound) flavorful cherry tomatoes, quartered 1. Mix the cooled toasted nuts. Coarsely chop about one quarter of them and set aside. 2. In a mortar (a processor is second choice), pound (or grind)...

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Candied Grapefruit Peel

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
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...uge chunks of pith on them will be slower to cook and dry than the rest. I guess what I’m saying is that standardization leads to consistency. Not that it matters a lot.  Put the cut up peel in a saucepan, cover with water, bring to a boil, pour off the water. Refill and bring to a boil again. Boil four times total. This doesn’t take as long as you’d think. The boiling reduces some of the bitterness in the peel.  boile...

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Saturday Linkages: Tiny Houses, Human Cheese, Doomsday Condos and Speakin’ Squirrel

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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Tiny Cabin in Scottish Countryside http://bit.ly/ItD5XQ And . . . Anderson Cooper tackles tiny houses http://www.mnn.com/your-home/remodeling-design/blogs/watch-anderson-cooper-tackles-tiny-houses Cat needs to learn water conservation: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/cat-needs-to-learn-water-conse.html No it’s not one of our April Fools day jokes: Breast Milk Ice Cream, Human Cheese http://aol.it/In5zBn Doomsday condos in old missile...

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Moonshine

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Fermentation, Food
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...to distill pure ethyl alcohol, sell it to corporate vodka producers as “product code 020001″, ship it “Bulk, Truck, Bulk Rail, or Tank” and as Journal reporter Eric Felten concluded, “Cut it with water — preferably from a source that will lend itself to a pretty picture on the label — bottle it, and you’re in the vodka business.” As it turns out there is an art to good homemade moonshine ̵...

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Saturday Linkages: Spoiled Kids, Leaf Blowers, and Yet More Signs of the Artisinal Apocalypse

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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...=social_retweet  … Man builds 50 Foot Wooden Tower to reach vegetable garden:  http:// dornob.com/50-foot-wooden -tower-is-a-brilliant-diy-backyard-solution/  … Another sign of the artisinal apocalypse: NYC water cafe sells fancily filtered local water http:// boingboing.net/2012/07/19/nyc -water-cafe-sells-fancily-f.html  … Hacked Ikea Leaning Chair: http:// dornob.com/hacked-ikea-le aning-chair-design-imitates-life-art-carto...

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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands

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rainwater harvesting
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...t and volume two is due out this summer. Landcaster’s ingenious methods involve little more than careful observation and some work with a shovel. He suggests that harvesting rainwater begins with considering the flow of water from the highest point (which for most people will be the roof) to the lowest point in your yard and then simply figuring out simple ways to get that water to percolate into the ground to nourish your plants. We’...

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