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How to Design and Fabricate Homestead Projects

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Design
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...Brain. Once you go through that you’re ready for a fun book I’m currently making my way through called Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design. Modeling Lastly it’s time to get those ideas in the free version of the 3d program Sketchup. You can learn Sketchup in an evening or two and it has really helped separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to my many bad ideas. With Sketchup you can rotate the object and really see if it works ae...

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It Quacks Like a Duck

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Animals
...of the line was an old comrade of ours, one of the proprietors of Petaluma Urban Homestead, who we know from Mr. Homegrown Revolution’s post grad school sojourn in the dull city of San Diego. In the ten years since we lost contact it turns out that our lives have taken similar paths, including the appreciation of Xtracycles and poultry. Except that the folks at Petaluma Urban Homestead have had the brilliance of exploring the world of ducks in add...

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Is the Urban Homesteading Trend Over?

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Thoughtstylings
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...ikes that coincide with canning at the end of summer. Unsurprisingly, most homesteading topics revolve around seasons. Seasonality, by the way, is one of things I really like about this movement. A digression here–the flatness of time (see Charles Taylor)–is one of the things I don’t like about modernity. “Home canning” searches “Home canning” searches show a more dramatic decline. “Backyard Chickens” searches People research backyard chickens in...

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Saturday Tweets: Crowbox, Urban Walking and the War on Cars

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...dded tomato cages! https://t.co/2fKOyyiBv1 — Erin (@ImpatientGarden) August 17, 2018 Google admits it tracks users’ location after they turn off location history https://t.co/qEh3Rq5j90 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 17, 2018 Open-air urinal facing tourist boats in Paris not welcome by all https://t.co/asyHXyLZGj — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 15, 2018 Want to become a DISEASE DETECTIVE? https://t.co/g60GSdQyp2 via @CDCgov — Root Simple (@...

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Your Urban Homesteading Vocabulary Word of the Day: Slumgum

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Animals, Bees
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...of slumgum. Don’t leave your slumgum outside like I did. It turns out that urban night critters such as skunks and raccoons also love slumgum. Some mammal dragged mine off and ate it! Side note: check your library’s online digital resources. The Los Angeles Public Library offers the Oxford English Dictionary, and many more online reference resources, for free to anyone with a LA library card. Stay tuned for a longer post on beeswax processing in t...

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