Saturday Linkages: Composting People, Jujubes, Bumpy Eggs and More

September 20, 2014

...t without plastic: http://www.washingtonsgreengrocer.com/everything-else/storage-tips/how-store-vegetables-fruit-without-plastic.htm … Hot? Get a fan: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/09/circulating-fans-air-conditioning.html … Urban Change in L.A. – Too Little, Too Slow http://la.streetsblog.org/2014/09/12/guest-editorial-urban-change-in-l-a-too-little-too-slow/#.VBSkrTljKfw.twitter … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Fo...

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Discover the Magic of Home Milling this Saturday

Mr. Homegrown

January 24, 2017

Bread, Events, Food

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...environment. Where The King’s Roost in Silver Lake is LA’s first and only urban homesteading store and learning center. We believe it is the only brick and mortar store in the country that carries a full line of home grain mills. We provide classes and supplies not just for milling and baking, but also for chicken keeping, bee keeping, soap and candle making, brewing, fermenting, and aquaponics. For more information contact: Roe Sie at roe@kingsr...

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Picture Sundays: Adobe Brick Making Workshop

Mr. Homegrown

May 10, 2015

Picture Sundays

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...A few pics from yesterday’s adobe brick making workshop taught by Ben Loescher of Adobe is Not Software. If you’d like to join in on the fun we’ll be making more bricks next Saturday. Head over to the Environmental Changemaker’s website to sign up for either the brick making or the cob oven workshop in June....

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How to Homestead

Mr. Homegrown

February 23, 2008

Self Watering Containers

...esteading can be done anywhere and we are here to show you how.” With many homesteading activities, from chicken slaughtering to tortellini making, internet based video is a useful resource when you don’t have a friend or relative to show you a skill first hand. Kudos to the How to Homesteaders and we look forward to future episodes on this nicely designed site. To celebrate the launch of howtohomestead.org, director Melinda Stone will be presenti...

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Saturday Linkages: We Are All Liars

Mr. Homegrown

October 26, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...which the machine knows nothing. This production is not for the purpose of making meaning. It is for the purpose of producing effects on users that keep us hooked. It is for the purpose of making users the conduits of the machine’s power, keeping its effects in circulation. Faked celebrity deaths, trolling, porn clickbait, advertisements, flurries of food and animal pictures, thirst traps, the endless ticker tape of messages mean less than they pe...

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