Mutant Squash

August 1, 2006

Today’s incredible picture comes from photographer, bike cultist, and composting Culver-Town revolutionary Elon Schoenholz. It’s a freak squash that grew out of his regular old household compost. The funny thing is that nobody at the Shoenholz Compound – neither Elon, wife Bryn nor new bambina Nusia eat squash – so the origin of this new hybrid compost squash is a mystery. This brings up a bit of botany. Plants “do the deed” with flowers which co...

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Initial Thoughts on the Age of Limits 2013 Conference

Mrs. Homegrown

May 30, 2013

Age of Limits, Thoughtstylings

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...urning red and the zombies are crawling the streets, I’m still going to be composting and working in my garden and trying to share what I know with whoever wants to learn and doing whatever I can to help my neighbors because that’s how I want to live, and I don’t intend to let a little thing like an apocalypse turn me into an #$#%#*&. In the coming days we’re going to be looking at the following concepts: The apocalypse meme The paralysis of doom...

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The Green Cone

Mr. Homegrown

October 14, 2006

Composting

...s you shouldn’t put meat products in compost piles check out the excellent composting safety tips found at the Colorado State University Cooperative Extension. The Green Cone could work as a good solution for folks who don’t have much of a garden, have access to a small bit of soil, and want to lesson the amount of waste going to the landfill. The key thing will be to see how well the waste dissolves, since most septic systems have to be pumped ou...

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Saturday Linkages: Beetle Party, Floating Homes and Cilantro

Mr. Homegrown

June 9, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...June 3, 2018 My wife Sharon’s first op-ed, on food waste. She’s @naturegrrrrl Food was our 2nd largest source of GHG emissions. So we became vegetarian, and started growing food, composting, and eating from the waste stream as much as we can. https://t.co/pRtNoomUCj — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) June 3, 2018...

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The Original L.A. Urban Homestead

Homegrown Neighbor

September 19, 2009

Thoughtstylings

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...before glossy magazines were doing “Green” issues, before hybrid cars and composting became hip, Julia Russell had been giving tours featuring the environmentally friendly aspects of her home and garden. Julia is pictured here in front of her Gordon apple tree which bore over 500 lbs. of apples last year. (We counted, seriously.) The Los Angeles Eco-Home Network has been educating Angelenos about simple ways to conserve energy and other resources...

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