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California Buckwheat

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Food, Foraging
...ul Tongva Indians used the roots and leaves for headaches and stomach problems, among many other uses including using the stems to pierce ears. California buckwheat is available from the Theodore Payne Foundation which runs a native plant nursery in the Sun Valley area. We can easily see California buckwheat fitting into your permacluture strategies, as well as something to look out for when foreging for food–not to mention the DIY piercings . . ....

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Seaweed Foraging

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Food, Foraging
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...orted by the LA Times. Back to seaweed. Here’s a few resources: California Native Plant Society article (pdf) on California Seaweeds Fin + Forage Kelp Identification guide A guide to brown seaweeds The sea forager’s guide to the Northern California coast by Kirk Lombard and Leighton Kelly (has a short section on seaweed) LA Times article on seaweed foraging in Southern California (I’ll note that I’ve heard conflicting information on whether SoCal...

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Picture Sundays: Agave Roast

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Picture Sundays
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...he Malki Museum on the Morongo Reservation to sample a large assortment of Native American foods as well as celebrate the end of a agave harvest and roast. I’ll nudge Mrs. Homegrown to blog about it, but let’s just go over a few of the delicious items on this plate: agave, yucca, beavertail cactus, chola buds, two forms of acorn mush, venison, rabbit stew, fry bread and a salad with a white sage dressing. I didn’t get to the fried crickets in time...

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An Open Letter to Our Mammalian Friends

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Animals, Gardening, Pests
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...home released you back in 1905. From there you displaced your more polite, native cousins. I get that you’re not going away. But can you please leave at least one peach for us humans? Keep this up and I’ll put together an unfavorable social media strategy to rebrand you as “#cuterats.” To the possums of Los Angeles: I appreciate your freakishness and you’re actually kind of cute up close. But you guys don’t look so good under the glare of an unfla...

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Branch Weaving & Climbing Structure Workshop

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Events
...abriel Valley into a playful sculptural garden installation that will grow native flowers as well as vegetables and fruits. Come and learn about weaving tuteurs, composting, mulching, water harvesting, and large structure wood weaving, and how to make a climbing structure for kids all from found wood. All workshops are led by artist/activist Jeeyun Ha. This is a four part Workshop, where you can attend one workshop at a time or all four. This is W...

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