Weekend Linkages: A Random Beginning to 2023

January 8, 2023

...Church members propose urban village for congregation A Very Moynihan Train Hall Thanksgiving: ‘Wow, I Can’t Even Sit Down?’ Hero of 2022: Those LA Police Funding Billboards Gramsci on hating new year’s day 2-Dog Backpack Boat: the Dogmaran Are Aliens Who Visit Earth Likely to Be Socialist?...

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Gardening in an Apartment Windowsill

Mr. Homegrown

July 12, 2008

Gardening

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...controls or the weight of the food harvested. It’s about a love for beauty, an attention to detail and an appreciation of good food. Imagine if all our unused or neglected urban spaces were as beautiful and useful as Helen’s garden. We’d live in a world transformed, one windowsill at a time....

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Weekend Linkages: Better Streets, Rental Gardens and Roombas That Spy

Mr. Homegrown

August 7, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...Medicine cabinets in the Pacific Ready Cut catalog. Better streets via AI New (and Old) Books for Urban and Rental Gardens A tread on why Amazon buying Roomba isn’t a good thing Strange Zillow listing of the week...

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Homegrown on Homegrown

Mr. Homegrown

October 21, 2008

Resources

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Out of Water!

Mr. Homegrown

November 5, 2007

Preparedness

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...Now!, the first book in Process Media’s Self-Reliance series (our book the Urban Homesteader, due out in May, is the third in this series). It’s one of the more expensive options in water storage, with new drums costing several hundred dollars, but avoids the problem of an off taste that plastic can impart. But while there’s something to be said for avoiding all sources of potential crankiness when the shit cometh down, stainless steel drums are a...

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