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Waking up on New Year’s Day with the world of long crowing roosters

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Animals, Chickens
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...ot suggesting these guys for urban situations, but New Year’s Day seems an appropriate moment to survey the world of long crowing roosters. According to poultry expert Gail Damerow, writing in the current issue of Backyard Poultry Magazine, long crowers probably have their origins in Japan and have spread throughout the world through deliberate selection. Here’s a play list for your listening pleasure, consisting of a Turkish long crowing breed, t...

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Native Plant Workshop

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Events, Native Plants
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...re–go ahead and mix natives with vegetables, fruit trees and other climate-appropriate plantings. 2. Natives aren’t edible. Many natives yield edible and medicinal crops. In North America the best way to delve into this topic is to figure out the plants that Native Americans in your area used. 3. Southern California is a desert and native plants are desert plants. Coastal Southern California has a Mediterranean climate not a desert climate and nat...

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Introducing Lora Hall

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Events
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...booth with Trisha Mazure every Tuesday from 3 to 8 pm. When we visited her at the market last week Lora had a bunch of interesting plants including purslane, tomatoes, tomatillos as well as a selection of fruit trees appropriate for our warm climate. In the LA area and want some fruit trees for your backyard? Some gardening advice? Contact Lora at [email protected]. Lora will be posting as Homegrown Neighbor....

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Our New Linoleum Floor

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Design
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...by Forbo. We returned to this material for two reasons: it’s historically appropriate for our 98 year old house and we like the more muted and natural colors of Frobo’s linoleum line. And we also found out that the kitchen floor of the Gamble House was recently redone with Forbo linoleum. “Linoleum” has become a generic term associated with all kinds of sheet flooring materials, but real linoleum refers to a product made with solidified linseed o...

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Irving Gill: the Greatest Architect You’ve Never Heard Of

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Design
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...od the Mediterranean climate of Southern California and designed buildings appropriate to the climate. I don’t know why we don’t have more courtyards like this one designed by Gill. He pioneered concrete tilt-up construction and was a master of the multi-unit bungalow court. Most of all I think he understood form and proportion. That’s how you can spot his elegant buildings. If one were to write the Southern California version of William Morris’ N...

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