Picture Sundays: Adobe Brick Making Workshop

May 10, 2015

...A few pics from yesterday’s adobe brick making workshop taught by Ben Loescher of Adobe is Not Software. If you’d like to join in on the fun we’ll be making more bricks next Saturday. Head over to the Environmental Changemaker’s website to sign up for either the brick making or the cob oven workshop in June....

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There Will Be Kraut Part II–Full Day Hands-On Fermentation Workshop at the Greystone Mansion

Mr. Homegrown

April 11, 2013

Events

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...orkshop for only $200 ! Erik Knutzen: Co-author of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World, co-founder of the Los Angeles Bead Bakers collective. Hae Jung Cho: After recovering from a career in nonprofit management, Hae Jung has been working in the food industry since 2003 in high-end restaurants, catering and retail environments. Driven by a passion for foods that require time and patience, she became a Master...

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Saturday Tweets: Gardens, Sorbet and Way Too Many Cat Memes

Mr. Homegrown

June 24, 2017

Saturday Linkages

...diagrams for Arduino electronics https://t.co/tFOF5XCSlj — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 19, 2017 No matter how hard you try, you'll never be this cool pic.twitter.com/fW1ulDfslD — Cats (@SpaceCatPics) June 19, 2017 selfie of the year and it's only June 15th pic.twitter.com/zYt2U4JURP — Cats (@SpaceCatPics) June 15, 2017...

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An Overdue Update on Phoebe

Mrs. Homegrown

July 30, 2013

Animals, Cats

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...eractive as our other two cats, but she beats up Buck, the youngest of our cats, every morning like clockwork, loves to savage the fishing pole toy, and is diligently destroying the underside of our sofa. The sofa is her great work, an evolving art piece about the nature of entropy. She will have a short lifespan, though. The drugs just buy her a little time. Dr. Zimmerman told us the oldest cat she knew with Phoebe’s rare condition made it to fou...

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A Day of the Dead Altar

Mrs. Homegrown

October 30, 2015

Domesticus, Thoughtstylings

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...doubt) and bat the rest of the objets to the ground. For the safety of the cats and my treasures, the entire surface needed to be so tightly crowded with things that the kitties wouldn’t be able to make a landing. I chose the top of a low bookshelf, and moved all adjacent furniture out of the way. So far, the cats haven’t been able to crack the problem, though they spend a lot of time studying the altar with ill intent. My set up is not quite comp...

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