Post Petroleum Lecture

...hich human communities relate to nature. Place: Audubon Center at Debs Park 4700 Griffin Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90031 Time:10:00 AM Cost:$10 on-line $15 at the door Instructions for payment: RSVP and pay on-line using PayPal www.sustainablehabitats.org Should you not be able to make it, Bates will be appearing the next day at the Los Angeles Eco-Village on Sunday March 25th at 8 pm. There is a suggested donation of $10 for the lecture. The Los Angel...

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A garden that looks like a meth amphetamine lab

...ne not employing slave labor. Forget about creating a mini Versailles–it’s time to get down to business and grow stuff you can eat. Our new criteria for success in gardens is this–a garden must simultaneously provide food for our table and habitat for beneficial wildlife, and it must take care of itself with a minimum amount of human intervention. We also need to start growing food everywhere we can. There’s an ugly concrete patio just off our bac...

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Post Petroleum Lecture – a reminder

...hich human communities relate to nature. Place: Audubon Center at Debs Park 4700 Griffin Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90031 Time:10:00 AM Cost:$10 on-line $15 at the door Instructions for payment: RSVP and pay on-line using PayPal www.sustainablehabitats.org Should you not be able to make it, Bates will be appearing the next day at the Los Angeles Eco-Village on Sunday March 25th at 8 pm. There is a suggested donation of $10 for the lecture. The Los Angel...

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Homegrown Revolution Visits SF

...Homegrown Revolution will be heading up to San Francisco this week in search of tales of fermentation, backyard chickens, humanure and bikes. We’ll be back in LA just in time for mycologist Paul Stamets‘ lecture “How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World” at the Farmlab. The lecture will be on Friday April 13, at 7:30 pm at 1745 N. Spring Street #4 Los Angeles, CA 90012....

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