Help Plant a Garden — and Help a Local Eagle Scout

June 23, 2016

Events

...ith an (exuberant) team of young scouts and to help get another section of food gardens built. Start time is 9am, and we’ll continue all day until it’s done. Bring your own garden gloves. If you’d like to help with assembling benches, bring your own toolbox. Although much of the project site is in the shade, we recommend sun hats / sun protection. The Garden is at 6700 West 83rd in Westchester – Los Angeles 90045. Please RSVP if you can come. If y...

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Coffee Roasting Demo at Summer Nights in the Garden July 8

Mr. Homegrown

June 20, 2016

Events

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...er Nights in the Garden. It’s a fun mix of hands-on science demos, crafts, food trucks, music and cocktails in the museum’s beautiful garden. We’ve been a part of it each year and we’re returning on July 8th from 5-9 p.m. to do a home coffee roasting demo. Of all the crazy home ec things we do around the Root Simple compound, coffee roasting is one of the simplest and most rewarding. I can’t believe that more people don’t do it. We’re going to sho...

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Science, Blogging and Peaches

Mr. Homegrown

May 31, 2016

Gardening, Thoughtstylings

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...While I don’t have the educational background or temperament for this, let me put this idea out there: how about putting together crowd-sourced experiments and observation into backyard food production? It seems like some great apps could be developed to do this. What do you think? What are the first questions you’d like answered?...

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Weekend Tweets: Strawberry Season, Air Plant Therapy and Trees Eating Things

Mr. Homegrown

May 7, 2016

Saturday Linkages

...ou needed some ideas! https://t.co/EFAz5WrKIf pic.twitter.com/DbfnVpFvIz — Food in Jars (@foodinjars) May 6, 2016 Cashew Butter with Honey and Cinnamon https://t.co/xQd0vZk8zk — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2016 How to Revive a Sick Air Plant via @Garden_Therapy https://t.co/7aQVr93hl8 pic.twitter.com/E5KQLjMyW0 — Fairy Tale Gardens (@JennasFairyTale) May 4, 2016 Trees “eating” things https://t.co/gjgBwqMo54 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 4,...

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Announcing Our New Solar Cooking Initiative

Mrs. Homegrown

March 31, 2016

Solar, Solar Oven Summer

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...cially for an unknown quantity. Would they really work? Could we make good food in one? I certainly didn’t want to spend a couple of hundred bucks on an oversized rice cooker. Wait! I almost forgot. We do have a solar oven in our garage! And if I don’t mention it, the Internet will make me a liar. Erik posted on it back in 2013. He was gifted a Sundiner, which is a 60’s era solar oven. We never use it because, being a product of the 60’s, it has a...

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