061 National Heirloom Expo Report

September 16, 2015

Gardening, Podcasts, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening

...aker Creek Seeds and features speakers, a huge hall of heirloom fruits and vegetables, vendors, livestock, a biodynamic pavilion and live music. I’ve attended each year for five years in a row. This year I took my portable recording equipment and on this episode of the podcast you’ll hear interviews with root vegetable expert Grant Brians, Sir Cobalot, Sustainable Santa (yes you heard that right) and we’ll conclude with a discussion about the Cali...

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Lord of the Flies Inspired Bike Rack

Homegrown Neighbor

May 18, 2009

Bikes

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...bviously it was designed to celebrate the market, where meat, produce, spices, nuts and almost any imaginable type of ethnic food can be found. The top is adorned with two pigs’ heads. The corners have fruits and vegetables in them. I think it is kind of grotesque but very eye-catching. I also like that it has four posts, allowing a lot of well spaced area to lock your bike to....

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Day to day, our decisions count

Mrs. Homegrown

April 30, 2015

Back to the Garden

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...es seasonal. How to develop a spirit of adventure. There are so many weird vegetables in the world–and they are delicious! Eating this way is also a good primer for vegetable gardening. It teaches you what grows well in your area, and how the seasons run, and gives you some inspiration as to good local varieties you can seek out. By the by, I thought I’d mention Azure Standard here, too. This is a U.S. based company–it does not operate in every st...

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Kent’s Composting Tips and Secret Weapon

Mr. Homegrown

October 27, 2006

Composting, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

...ver cat food gets into the mix, even oily stuff, but mostly it’s the usual veggies, fruits, paper napkins, etc. Though experts say no fats should go in, I’ve yet to see (or smell) a problem. Each time I add new kitchen scraps, I add 1-2 shovels-full of dry leaves and some water if needed, turning and mixing the old and new stuff with a cultivator or shovel to aerate the pile. The proportion of dry to wet material is important. There should be enou...

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Putting Your Civic House in Order: How the Young Members of the Family Help

Mr. Homegrown

July 10, 2017

Gardening

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...roads, winding in between waving fields of grain, truck gardens, orchards fruits, walnuts, plums, peaches and figs; that its schools we unexcelled and that the interest of the people in agriculture was intense yet that unsightly waste places and a woeful lack of finish and formity marred this natural beauty and showed that the best use was not being made by man of the lavish gifts of Nature to awaken people to a greater appreciation of the beauty...

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