Saturday Tweets: Your Own Personal Disney Castle

February 16, 2019

...t as easily imagine as an apartment building. I can't imagine too many complaints if new apartment buildings looked like this pic.twitter.com/4W2TruZdbQ — Robert Kwolek (@RobertKwolek) February 14, 2019 Highways: publicly subsidized Parking: publicly subsidized Gasoline: publicly subsidized Suburbs: publicly subsidized Auto industry: publicly bailed out Car driver: DEFINITELY NOT A SOCIALIST — David Wagoner (@dfwagoner) February 12, 2019 Our d...

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Discover the Magic of Home Milling this Saturday

Mr. Homegrown

January 24, 2017

Bread, Events, Food

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...day, January 28 th , 2-5pm The King’s Roost 3732 Sunset Blvd, LA, CA 90026 www.kingsroost.com Organizers: Guy Frenkel of Ceor Bread, Erik Knutzen of Root Simple, Leyna Lightman, and Roe Sie Who Local farmers, millers, and bakers will be there to meet with Paul LeBeau. Paul is the managing director of German based home mill manufacturing company Wolfgang Mock. They have designed an affordable, compact, stone mill attachment for the Kitchen-Aid and,...

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Homegrown Evolution Podcast Episode #1

Mr. Homegrown

August 17, 2009

Water and Power, Water Conservation

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...Lark Books). She also has a weekly column every Friday on Design*Sponge at www.designspongeonline.com/category/small-measures. In the second part of the show we talk to Wing Tam, assistant division manager for the Watershed Protection Program in the City of Los Angeles’ Bureau of Sanitation about a new rainwater harvesting pilot project. You can find out more about the program at www.larainwaterharvesting.org. We conclude with a reaction to this n...

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Saturday Linkages: Independence Day Weekend Edition

Mr. Homegrown

July 5, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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...Plant Photos http://disq.us/8j1m1y Never Buy A Rotten Avocado Again http://www.nwedible.com/2012/05/never-buy-a-rotten-avocado-again.html … Why Do We Refrigerate Eggs in the United States? http://www.kcet.org/living/food/the-nosh/why-do-we-refrigerate-eggs-in-the-united-states.html … Ash Forests After Emerald Ash Borers Destroy Them http://nyti.ms/1qs4kr1 German police apologize for fining one-armed cyclist for riding his bike with only one arm ht...

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A Cluttered Life: Middle-Class Abundance

Mr. Homegrown

August 17, 2018

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...book is worth reading (ironically, I just sold my copy to reduce book clutter). While I no longer own the book I was happy to discover the short, three part video series on the project which I’ve embedded for your weekend enjoyment. Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyHS_-Umv4E Part III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJWOWksT1x4&t=11s What was especially interesting for me about these videos is that they address the complex intersection of...

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