Saturday Tweets: Danes and Their Garbage, Big Food and #BlackCatAppreciationDay

August 22, 2015

...nument? http://t.co/BajPa0tpNt — Glen Dake (@GlenDake) August 19, 2015 Big Food is Spending Millions to Lobby for Less Transparency | Civil Eats http://t.co/KU5kxIKUlx — Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) August 19, 2015 Mozz education! . RT @SlowFoodHQ: Mozzarella: 10 Tips to Help you Choose the Real Thing http://t.co/rUzhWijh0d pic.twitter.com/k1V5FxSi0U — Evan Kleiman (@evankleiman) August 19, 2015 Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of favorable research: th...

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Nance Klemn is in Los Angeles and She’s Teaching Classes!

Mr. Homegrown

February 3, 2015

Events

..., and teacher. Based in the Midwest, she lives and works in a diverse neighborhood in the heart of Chicago, and is developing a farm on her land outside the city. She is founder of Social Ecologies, a nonprofit that focuses on system regenerating projects, including The Ground Rules, an urban soil- and community-building initiative using local green and food waste. Nance has worked internationally, lectured at art museums (including MOCA and the H...

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Biodynamic Composting Workshop

Mr. Homegrown

August 4, 2014

Events

...Root Simple. Erik Knutzen is the author, with his wife Kelly Coyne, of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World. He blogs and produces a podcast at www.rootsimple.com. Cost: $20 per person. Space is limited to 20 attendees. Children are free and welcome to participate under the supervision of their parents. Register in advance here. What to bring: hat, gloves, sturdy shoes – be prepared to get your hands dirty!...

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The Tiny House

Mr. Homegrown

January 15, 2007

Design

...can find a vacant lot, such a small house could be the ideal start of your urban homestead, leaving plenty of yard space for growing your own food. And these small building literally sip utilities making them ideal for hooking up to solar power and very cheap to heat and cool. They are also expandable as your needs or family grows. And perhaps most importantly, they prevent expansion of all the things we don’t need, the giant plasma screens, the i...

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Come see us at the fair!

Mr. Homegrown

September 27, 2008

Miscellaneous

...unge with the Feral House Pixies. Other spectacular Feral House/Process authors will be signing throughout the day, too. Location: booths C8 & C9, in the “Imix” zone, which is sort of between the food court and the pool. 2:00-2:30: We’re doing a demo at the booth–making butter! Afterward we’ll just be hanging out for the rest of the day. Hope to see you there!...

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