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

April 11, 2013

Events

...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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Simple Tech

Mr. Homegrown

July 6, 2007

Thoughtstylings

...ay by replacing our iPhones with a flock of chickens? Do you know how many chickens you can get for the price of an iPhone? Two hundred. Of course your deluxe $100 iPhone calling plan courtesy of AT&T will only pay for around 400 pounds of chicken feed a month, so the fiscally prudent will trim that flock down to around 65 chickens. Of course if you let that flock catch the spill-over from the draft horses that will replace your Chevy Yukon when t...

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Farmstead Egg Guide & Cookbook Giveaway

Mr. Homegrown

March 17, 2014

Animals, Chickens, Reviews

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...e to do is leave a comment an this post. Tells us something about your own chickens, or tells us whether you’d ever consider keeping chickens. We’ll draw a winner at random. Here’s one of the recipes from the book: Zucchini and Mint Frittata Mint is not just for iced tea and garnishes on plates! Used in a frittata, it adds just the right savory and herbal note to the vegetables. A frittata can be finished in the oven, or it can be flipped over in...

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Hens in the Orchard for Pest Control

Mr. Homegrown

July 25, 2013

Animals, Chickens, Fruit Trees, Gardening, Pests

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...fruit, add nitrogen to the soil and the canopy of the orchard protects the hens from hawks and heat. Plus you get eggs and meat. Permaculture in action. The 1920s era photo you see above comes from one of Terry’s posts, Chickens in Orchards....

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Is Urban Homesteading Over With?

Mr. Homegrown

March 22, 2013

Animals, Bread, Chickens, Food, Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Transportation

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...y. It’s inevitable that media interest in home ec topics will decline when the stock market is up. Just remember how quickly vegetable gardens and chicken coops were abandoned in the 1980s. But I have a good feeling that the lessons of the last few years will stick better than they did in the 1970s. What do you think?...

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