A Warning About Straw

October 25, 2009

Animals, Chickens, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

...hat will germinate, but I’ve never found it to be a big problem in a small vegetable garden. I get my straw from the feed store, but you can often get it for free from yuppies on Craigslist who have bought it to give their parties the Hee Haw ambiance we enjoy 24/7 at the Homgrown Evolution compound. If you buy it from the feed store remember to ask for straw, not hay. Hay is green and a lot more expensive. You feed hay to your horses. But one war...

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Make Mag

Mr. Homegrown

June 5, 2009

Events

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...volution has an article on how to install a drip irrigation system in your vegetable garden. Eric Muhs tells you how to collect rainwater to use for flushing your toilet (very clever!). Celine Rich-Darley tells you how to vermicompost in your apartment. Michael Perdriel explains how to make an off-grid laundry machine. Limor Fried and Phillip Torrone hook up a electricity monitor to a computer to twitter their energy usage. You’ll have to buy a co...

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Meet My Chickens: the continuing story of Chickenzilla

Homegrown Neighbor

May 17, 2009

Animals, Chickens

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...jump/fly the three feet into the compost bin to hunt for good eats. If Chickenzilla can leave her corn-fed agribusiness breeding behind and transform into a homegrown, vegetable loving, free range, compost enthusiast chicken then maybe there is hope for the American food system....

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Perennial Vegetables

Mr. Homegrown

February 27, 2009

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...nnual”), don’t need to be replanted every spring. The best known perennial vegetable in the west is probably asparagus which, given the right conditions, will produce fresh stalks for years. But there are many thousands more perennials little known to North American gardeners that are a lot easier to grow than fussy asparagus. Unfortunately, there used to be a lack of information about edible perennials until the publication of Eric Toensmeier’s e...

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Boulder man faces $2000 fine/day for guerilla garden fencing

Mr. Homegrown

July 11, 2008

Gardening

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...’re on public property, Arthur said, if they’re not able to reach a compromise.” Myself and three other neighbors here in my Los Angeles neighborhood are doing exactly the same parkway vegetable planting Hoffenberg is doing. All it takes is one disgruntled and unhappy neighbor. We gotta change the paradigm folks–food not lawns!...

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