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October 22, 2016

...bout relational approaches to issues like #climatechange, which I summarized in @NewRepublic https://t.co/UdWXH3uPYP — Faith Kearns (@frkearns) October 18, 2016 10 facts you might not know about Food Waste: https://t.co/35NuLW88tg #foodtank pic.twitter.com/BSF4mvmQX5 RT @Food_Tank #foodwaste — UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) October 18, 2016 What Will Break People’s Addictions to Their Phones? https://t.co/VHU1OjHuYG — Root Simple (@rootsimple)...

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30 Years of Farmer’s Markets in Los Angeles

Mr. Homegrown

September 1, 2009

Events

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...ee self irrigating pot (SIP) demo. Learn how to use a SIP to grow your own food even if you have no land to call your own. Best of all there will be a whole lot more to enjoy–see the amazing lineup here. The event will take place downtown at the Arts District/Little Tokyo Market at City Hall–1st and Spring Street. Chef demonstrations, a salsa contest and speeches kick off at 10:30 a.m. If you like food and live in Los Angeles don’t be anywhere els...

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Homegrown Evolution Podcast Episode #1

Mr. Homegrown

August 17, 2009

Water and Power, Water Conservation

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...t small-measure.blogspot.com. English will have two books out next year on food preservation and chickens, part of a series entitled “Homemade Living,” (Lark Books). She also has a weekly column every Friday on Design*Sponge at www.designspongeonline.com/category/small-measures. In the second part of the show we talk to Wing Tam, assistant division manager for the Watershed Protection Program in the City of Los Angeles’ Bureau of Sanitation about...

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Our new front yard: history

Mrs. Homegrown

November 11, 2015

Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening

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...cranny. Eventually, the front slope was the only place we weren’t growing food or herbs or medicinals–unless you counted the lavender. We wanted more fruit trees, but didn’t imagine we had room for more than the couple we already had until we learned about the concept of backyard orchard culture from Dave Wilson Nursery. This was around 2008. We decided to go radical–placing food production above any concern for traditional landscaping–and plante...

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Citified Parched Corn

Mrs. Homegrown

March 18, 2013

Food, Food Preservation, How-to, Recipes

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...ried corn which has been roasted–is one of those legendary Native American foods, like pemmican, which you hear about but don’t necessarily ever get to try. Parched corn is a lightweight, long-keeping, high-energy trail food. It can also be ground into flour and used in cooking. I have vague elementary school memories of claims that a warrior* could walk a whole day nourished on just a handful of parched corn. (They did not mention that the warrio...

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