The Arroyo Co-op in Pasadena

September 7, 2014

Food

...ing could help you build and support your community? Welcome to the Arroyo Food Co-op! The Arroyo Food Co-op is our effort to bring community and social values to the residents of Pasadena and surrounding areas. A dream in 2009, given an address in 2013, the Co-op officially opened its doors in 2014, as an on-line grocer coupled with a brick-and-mortar market. Co-op members can select from hundreds of items on our website (http://order.arroyofoodc...

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Saturday Tweets: Bees, Fireflies and Food Waste

Mr. Homegrown

June 16, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...ttps://t.co/vxw4HwbP6d — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) June 13, 2018 Reduce food waste to combat world hunger & slow global #climatechange. @UCANR teaches the compost solution. https://t.co/k1S3tUTgmw pic.twitter.com/keYBmIGzUB — Jeannette Warnert (@jwarnert) June 13, 2018 Love is always at the service of others. Because love is seen in actions, not words. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 15, 2018 When you can’t sleep [Louis Wain, c. 1890] pic.twitt...

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Romanesco broccoli cameo lights up Star Wars film

Mrs. Homegrown

December 30, 2015

Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening

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...ed as a food, as it should be–as opposed to ivy vines being presented as a food crop in Maze Runner– it is an Earth food, so it’s interesting that the film makers decided to include it as part of the scenery. The only other edible in the movie is special effect-based alien food–I won’t be spoilery and say any more about that. The Star Wars world isn’t posited as our future world, as the Star Trek world is–it’s a mythic world, somewhere long ago an...

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An ancient food forest

Mrs. Homegrown

March 26, 2015

Fruit Trees, Garden Design, Gardening, Permaculture

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...tgWcD-1Nw An intriguing short video by permaculturist Geoff Lawton about a food forest in Morocco. It does leave me with questions, though, such as: what sort of labor does it take to keep this system going? And also, what other kinds of inputs does it require? Is it irrigated, and if so, how? Still, it’s inspiring to see so much abundance in a dry space. Come to think of it, LA has lots of palm trees already. If we’d just give up our cars, we cou...

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Weekend Linkages: Spiders and Fast Food Ghosts

Mr. Homegrown

July 17, 2022

Saturday Linkages

...Michael Grave’s original plans for Portland City Hall had a little town on top via @jmfowl. Two Men Had To Be Extinguished After Catching Fire At Goop Store A beautiful art book about spiders LA Restaurants Are Breathing Life Into the Architectural Ghosts of Fast-Food Past China Miéville: “If you don’t feel despair, you’re not opening your eyes” Energy use from US cryptomining firms is contributing to rising utility bills...

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