Making It

April 26, 2011

...ctions for a wide range of projects, from building a 99-cent solar oven to making your own laundry soap to instructions for brewing beer. Making It is the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun, inexpensive and eminently doable. Our goal in this book was to provide really stripped down, simple projects that use only inexpensive, easy to source materials. We also tried to use the same materials and ingredients over and over a...

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Picture Sundays: Name This Flower

Mr. Homegrown

April 21, 2013

Picture Sundays

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...I planted our parkway with a California native wildflower mix from Theodore Payne last year. This flower was the most successful and reseeded itself. But I lost the seed package and don’t know its name. Identify it and you win bragging rights . . . Update: Dree wins bragging rights! It’s Elegant clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata)....

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Picture Sundays: Early Folding Bike?

Mr. Homegrown

February 9, 2014

Bikes, Picture Sundays, Transportation

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...No information on this 1920s era photo from the Library of Congress other than the title, “New Bicycle Helps Solve Transit Problems .” Some sort of folding bike? Any guess?...

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Picture Sundays: Rain!

Mr. Homegrown

March 2, 2014

Picture Sundays

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...I have an informal rule about not talking about the weather on this blog, but this was the best week in months....

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Picture Sundays: White Sage

Mr. Homegrown

March 9, 2014

Picture Sundays

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...White sage (Salvia apiana) with Vitis californica in the background. Our white sage plant is probably my favorite plant in the garden. I started to write a post about it this week but realized that Mrs. Homegrown already did that three years ago....

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