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Biodynamic Composting Workshop

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Events
...utzen is the author, with his wife Kelly Coyne, of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World. He blogs and produces a podcast at www.rootsimple.com. Cost: $20 per person. Space is limited to 20 attendees. Children are free and welcome to participate under the supervision of their parents. Register in advance here. What to bring: hat, gloves, sturdy shoes – be prepared to get your hands dirty! Refreshments will be...

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Flowers from Vegetables

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Gardening, Permaculture, Vegetable Gardening
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...will move in. Of course this means that I’m “wasting space” and making my garden “unproductive” but the rewards outweigh any inconvenience. New gardeners are often surprised to see what amazing flowers different vegetables make. People with no connection to food plants whatsoever may not even know that vegetables make flowers, so it’s fun to show them a carrot flower, a squash blossom, a bean flower. My new favorite garden flower comes off an old...

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Did Kelly follow her 2012 resolutions?

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Miscellaneous
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...ting this week. Seriously. No, really! -Spend more time outside loving the garden–just being with it, regarding it with joy instead of judgement. This I did not do, which is a real shame. I don’t know what my block is, why the garden is no longer fun, but that is something to ponder. -Learn to identify trees. What a crappy goal. It’s too vaguely stated. All trees? How many trees? I do know a few more trees this year than I did last year. -Take up...

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Saturday Linkages: Naked Gardening, Ticks, Walking in LA and Eating Giant Rats

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Saturday Linkages
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...es-give-slum-dwellers-a-safe-home-in-just-one-day/ … Subtle Site Strategy: Garden Wall Home Has Hidden Depths | Designs & Ideas on Dornob http://dornob.com/subtle-site-strategy-garden-wall-home-has-hidden-depths/ … We’re all gonna die! You Won’t Believe What’s In Your Turkey Burger http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/04/theres-fecal-bacteria-your-ground-turkey … The Rise of the Tick http://shar.es/lr7aE Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of C...

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