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30 Years of Farmer’s Markets in Los Angeles

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Events
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...in Good Magazine’s booth at noon this Thursday September 3rd doing a free self irrigating pot (SIP) demo. Learn how to use a SIP to grow your own food even if you have no land to call your own. Best of all there will be a whole lot more to enjoy–see the amazing lineup here. The event will take place downtown at the Arts District/Little Tokyo Market at City Hall–1st and Spring Street. Chef demonstrations, a salsa contest and speeches kick off at 1...

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Steve Solomon’s Soil and Health e-Library

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...lth e-library contains books on “holistic agriculture, holistic health and self-sufficient homestead living” You can download the books for free, but Solomon requests a modest $13 donation. You can find this amazing resource at: www.soilandhealth.org. The “Radical Agriculture” part of the archive contains many early organic ag classics by authors such as Sir Albert Howard, J.I. Rodale and Ehrenfried Pfeiffer. The “Homesteading” part of the library...

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A Primitive Bow Workshop

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Preparedness
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...lief to spend a Saturday carving primitive bows in a workshop led by local self-reliance expert Christopher Nyerges. Kelly and I have been into archery for many years, off and on, but we’ve never tried to make our own bow. Root Simple pal John Zapf carves a bow to match that stylish hat A bow seems like a simple device until you try to make one that will work repeatedly without breaking. A bow is actually a very complicated tool, something that sh...

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Ladies of Manure 2013 Calendar

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Composting, Humanure, Thoughtstylings
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...“Nope. Not even if civilization is burning down around my ears.” “Note to self: Never visit these people at home.” “They want me to keep poop around the house. Poop. Around my house.” “Hmm, I’m sensing some sort of potty-training trauma here. Definitely an unhealthy anal obsession.” “Funny, they don’t look like hippies.” It’s an hard nut to crack, the poop nut. This environmental non-profit called The Fertile Earth Foundation is going about in a...

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Did Kelly follow her 2012 resolutions?

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Miscellaneous
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...n’t happen. If I had a dollar for every daily schedule I’ve composed for myself I wouldn’t have to worry about work at all. I sing the sad ballad of the freelancer. -Accomplish my “yucky list” this month: switching banks, upgrading my RAM, getting a new passport, and making appointments for a physical, a dental exam and an eye exam. (In terms of engaging with the medical establishment, I prefer to behave as if though the zombie apocalypse has alre...

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