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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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Saturday Tweets: Barbra Streisand, Urban Farm Troubles and Thoughtful Plants

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...@BoingBoing http://t.co/xu3ZRI8aGU — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 5, 2014 Seized! Urban farm troubles in Detroit: http://t.co/QLvb5ex0dP via @JewishNewsDet — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 4, 2014 Inhofe's grand climate conspiracy theory: It's all about Barbra Streisand http://t.co/ajhqjEzvBZ via @motherjones — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 3, 2014 Six Myths About Climate Change that Liberals Rarely Question http://t.co/Rox...

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Author and Urban Farmer Novella Carpenter Rocks Los Angeles

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Resources, Urban Farming
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Yesterday, Homegrown Evolution had the great privilege of meeting urban farmer and author Novella Carpenter who was in Los Angeles to deliver a lecture and sign her new book Farm City. She’s a phenomenal speaker, both hilarious and inspiring. What we like most about Carpenter is her honesty in describing the ups and downs of raising pigs, goats, chickens, turkeys, rabbits and more on squatted land next to her apartment in Oakland. As she put it,...

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Saturday Tweets: Urban Ag, Climate Change and Gifts from Birds

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...15 Debate truly over. Only ONE #climate scientist (of over 9K) published in 2012 & 2013 didn't attribute it to human activity. #CRinCanada — Brendan Seale (@bseale) July 9, 2015 Bees are losing their habitat because of climate change http://t.co/KhWwD5rhaa via @TIME — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 9, 2015 Episcopal Church divests from fossil fuels: http://t.co/lYOO6HOQ6u — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 8, 2015 An old story but a good one. Th...

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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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