Urban Livestock and Bikes!

February 18, 2009

Events

...of becoming a “backwards” beekeeper. We’ll discuss how to integrate these animals into your backyard and how they can serve multiple purposes beyond just being pets. Suggested donation: $10 to $20. Space is limited, so please RSVP by sending an email to [email protected]. LA Bike Summit Ride on down to LA Trade Tech College on Saturday March 7th for the LA Bike Summit. From 9 to 4 p.m. there will be a bunch of panels and lectures i...

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Weekend Tweets: Poppies, Insane Comics and Black Metal Cats

Mr. Homegrown

April 30, 2016

Saturday Linkages

...Top L.A. Vegan Restaurant Owners Receiving Death Threats for Slaughtering Animals https://t.co/kJmVauMmwh via thr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 28, 2016 Highland Park Bowl is a stunning masterwork of Prohibition-era preservation https://t.co/DobuvSFzyF via @eaterla — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 27, 2016 No Knead Bread with Olives Recipe – GardenFork https://t.co/ibyIEKidc4 — Madkins (@Madkins2008) April 21, 2016 It would only take me an e...

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Author and Urban Farmer Novella Carpenter Rocks Los Angeles

Mr. Homegrown

July 24, 2009

Resources, Urban Farming

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...e read excerpts from Farm City and Carpenter is a terrific writer. In addition to her books and articles she blogs at ghosttownfarm.wordpress.com and offers workshops on raising and slaughtering animals for meat in the city. And like Carpenter, we also fantasize about trading the bicycle for a mule. Time to print up the “one less bike” saddle stickers . . ....

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Mulch, mulch, mulch!

Mrs. Homegrown

May 14, 2015

Back to the Garden, Garden Design, Gardening, Permaculture, Soil

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...Sometimes they are confused for one another, but they are quite different animals. Compost, which we talked about last week, is more nutrient rich than mulch. It’s full of life, and inoculates soil with that life. Mulch, on the other hand, is a blanket for the soil. (A blankie, as I think of it in my more regressive moments.) It is not a living material, as good compost is. Rather, it is made up of dead, dry plant matter (dead leaves, shredded wo...

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The Unintended Consequences of Water Conservation

Mr. Homegrown

September 9, 2015

Gardening

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...access TV show. Who cares if you pull the water? Never mind that insects, animals and people call those landscapes home. Two ways out of this: a focus on long term solutions in our civic discourse and instilling a love of plants (we could call it horticultural literacy) in the next generation. Both are tall orders. In the meantime, I recommend reading Hodel and Pittenger’s paper. They are, perhaps, more enamored of the lawn than I but their call...

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