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Going to Seed

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Back to the Garden, Gardening, Nature Awareness, Vegetable Gardening
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...not supporting much life at all. We’ve put up the No Trespassing sign, and creatures listen. It gets even more sparse if we spray herbicides and pesticides all over the place. All of the invisible life vanishes. Any creatures which visit are just passing through. The land is eerily silent. But life is waiting to come back. That is what is so amazing. It jumps back if given even half a chance. If you open the door just a crack. All we have to do is...

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Back to the Garden

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Back to the Garden, Thoughtstylings
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...ften wondered where humans were meant to fit in the dance. We are such odd creatures: naked, bipedal, abstract thinkers far too clever for anybody’s good. It’s easy to imagine that the world would be better off without our interference. But I don’t think that is the case. I think the world needs us, has always needed us. Intelligence runs throughout creation, and I never underestimate the intelligence of other creatures and even plants, but human...

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Why Your Garden Should Be Dark at Night

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Garden Design, Gardening
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...t night to benefit our well being and as well as the survival of nocturnal creatures. Night Sky concluded with a brief interview with Hervé Descottes, one of the lighting designers of the Highline Park in New York City. Descottes’s lighting design shows how you can balance the need for security with respect of the night sky by simply directing lighting downwards. The International Dark-Sky Association has a guide to residential lighting that will...

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Foodcrafting 101

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Bread, Events, Food
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...Guinness Stout, liqueurs, orange flower water, coffee or fresh citrus zest. You’ll have an entire flavor bar™ of spices, sweeteners and herbs to pick from as you create your own signature mustard blend. INSTRUCTORS INCLUDE: Erik Knutzen: Co-author of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World and a L.A. County Master Food Preserver Joseph Shuldiner: Institute Director, and author: Pure Vegan: 70 Recipes for Beauti...

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Homegrown Evolution in Chicago

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Events
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...ter with: nettlesting@yahoo.com Erik will lead an informal presentation on Urban Homesteading in Los Angeles – focusing on his and his wife’s homegrown systems of adventurous experimentation of chickens, growing, greywater, brewing and more – some successful, some not so much! Copies of The Urban Homestead will be for sale. Many thanks to Nancy Klehm for arranging these events! See her website Spontaneous Vegetation for more info on other events a...

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