Digital Farming- What’s The Deal?

October 31, 2009

Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening

Homegrown Neighbor here: So here in the world of urban homesteading things can get pretty busy. We can become so preoccupied with work, chickens, vegetable gardening, cooking, cleaning, blogging duties and email that we can miss some of the things going on in the world. I do like to occasionally check in with the world at large by reading the newspaper. I just read an article that I have to comment on. A recent New York Times article titled, ‘To...

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Moonlight Medicine Foraging Expedition!

Mrs. Homegrown

December 4, 2009

Events

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...sed in herbal remedies. >>>> Nance Klehm is a radical ecologist, designer, urban forager, grower and teacher. Her solo and collaborative work focuses on creating participatory social ecologies in response to a direct experience of a place. She grows and forages much of her own food in a densely urban area. She actively composts food, landscape and human waste. She only uses a flush toilet when no other option is available. She designed and current...

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How to Cook Broadleaf Plantain

Mrs. Homegrown

November 19, 2012

Food, Foraging, Preparedness, Recipes

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...ugh MeetUp. And you should definitely check out Pascal’s foraging website, Urban Outdoor Skills. Both of their websites feature “food labs” which have some of the most inventive wild food recipes I’ve seen anywhere. On a recent visit to Urban Outdoor Skills, I was very excited to find he’d developed a cooking technique for broadleaf plantain (Plantago major, the common weed, not the banana relative). Though I know plantain is very nutritious, it i...

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Saturday Linkages: Can We Please Have More Underpass Chandeliers?

Mr. Homegrown

February 1, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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...fied with recycled bike chandeliers : TreeHugger http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/ballroom-luminoso-underpass-converted-bike-chandeliers-joe-oconnell-blessing-hancock.html … Yes, the farm bill is politically corrupt. Veto it! http://goo.gl/fb/vhLtK What’s wrong with an ugly winter garden? http://gu.com/p/3mb4a/tw The secret light of plants by Elizabeth Licata http://feedly.com/e/_hlIqNZG California Legalized Selling Food Made At Home And Cre...

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Chicken Coop Deconstructed

Homegrown Neighbor

October 9, 2009

Animals, Chickens

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...end Justin, curator of the local arts space Echo Curio and a fellow master gardener to help. He has the building and construction skills that I lack. This week the students took off all of the old plywood, chain link and chicken wire. The students loved destroying the old structure. They got to use crowbars and hammers after a little safety lesson. Dust and spiderwebs flew everywhere. They practically had to be dragged back to the classroom at the...

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