Happy Holidays From Los Angeles

December 24, 2012

...Our local drive-in liquor store certainly has the Christmas spirit. The Hi-Ho Market Christmas tree stays up year round! In fact it’s been up for several years. In place of a star there’s now a bucket full of trash. Extra points to the person that names the edible plant in front of the Hi-Ho. Who says LA is a food desert?...

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Saturday Linkages: Coop Plans, Moonshine and Mercury in Seafood

Mr. Homegrown

December 22, 2012

Saturday Linkages

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...e Mayan Apocalypse Cigarette company endorses apples: http://boingboing.net/2012/12/18/cigarette-company-endorses-app.html … Mercury in seafood: Where does it come from? http://grist.org/food/mercury-in-seafood-where-does-it-come-from/#.UM036EuO8V8.twitter … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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Picture Sundays: The Vigo County Canning Club

Mr. Homegrown

October 14, 2012

Picture Sundays

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...Vigo County Canning Club, Indiana 1918. Via Kaufmann Mercantile. I hope we’ll be seeing more food preservation clubs in the years to come. They make a lot of sense. You can pool resources, labor and expertise. No need to be nostalgic, this is an idea for the present and future....

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Bird Flu and Industrial Agriculture

Mr. Homegrown

July 27, 2008

Animals, Chickens

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...poultry keepers such as ourselves are a greater threat. A report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks (pdf) lends credence to Dr. Greger’s assertion that the hazard of a bird flu outbreak comes not just from backyard flocks but from large scale livestock operations. It seems logical: pack thousands of immunosupressed birds in a shed and spew their waste into the...

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Farming: One way to try and save Detroit – Dec. 29, 2009

Homegrown Neighbor

January 1, 2010

Urban Farming

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...ss we could do a lot of farming in the city. Land is cheap and abundant. But it sounds cold and we are weak in the face of temperatures below 50 degrees. Farming: One way to try and save Detroit – Dec. 29, 2009...

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