A Year after The Age of Limits: 5 Responses to the End Times

May 5, 2014

...g years will come from the ground level, person by person, house by house, community by community. Erik and I have been saying this for years. It’s more true than ever. If lots and lots of people made changes in the way they live, and thus used fewer resources and cut down on our carbon emissions, we might slow down some aspects of the Crappening. That would be dandy. But salvation is not the point. We cannot know if that would ever happen, anyway...

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Los Angeles Permaculture Design Course Certificate Series

Mr. Homegrown

July 26, 2013

Events, Permaculture

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...Designing & Building the Complete Home Ecosystem. February 1/2 & March 1/2 Community & Green Business… EcoVillage Design and Community Celebration. TEACHING TEAM Instructors include Internationally Acclaimed Leaders in the Worldwide Sustainability Movement: • L. SANTOYO, Director, EarthFlow Design Works • SCOTT PITTMAN, President, The Permaculture Institute • TOBY HEMENWAY, Author, Gaia’s Garden • JOHN VALENZUELA, Permaculture Designer, Horticultu...

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Earth Building Classes!

Mr. Homegrown

January 27, 2015

Events

...e on site by students using native soil, and they’ve been baking bread and making pizza with ingredients grown on-site! It was great to work with such an enthusiastic group – cooking with dirt is more than mud pies! Got something going on?: Drop us a line! We’re anxious to hear about new projects, preservation efforts, classes and folks doing recreational or professional adobe work in California. There’s a lot of people in our community that we ha...

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Learn to Build with Adobe

Mr. Homegrown

August 10, 2016

Events

...town headquarters: Making Adobe: The next session of our monthly, half day Making Adobe class in Pioneertown is coming up on Sunday, August 21st. Just a couple minutes from both Sand to Snow National Monument and Joshua Tree National Park, we’ll spend Sunday providing a condensed introduction to making and building with adobe brick. Our final two session this year will be on September 25 and October 23th. Register here, bring your friends, make so...

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The Wonder of Worms

Mrs. Homegrown

May 21, 2015

Back to the Garden, Gardening, Vermiculture

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...ectly. But if done right, ACT is said to foster beneficial microorganisms, making the resulting brew a soil super tonic. The tea is also said to have some efficacy on diseases and pests when applied to the plants themselves. Whether or not this brew is actually as effective as all that has become a bit of a hot-button topic in the gardening community–and a subject on which Erik and I remain firmly agnostic. Until we know more, we’re using the cast...

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