Search Results for: label/food/2010/06/the-urban-homestead

772 results

Reforming City Codes

Avatar photo
Thoughtstylings
10 Comments
...Change the outdated codes that were enacted as a response to someone’s suburban utopian nightmare of manicured lawns and gumdrop shrubs! This is probably what will come of the Florida case. My City recently tried to legalize backyard chickens, someone started an anti-chicken campaign and the City Council lost it’s nerve and voted the amendment down………….Sometimes you just can’t win…….. DRBREW makes a good point. The City of Los Angeles just starte...

Read…

Saturday Linkages: Holiday Edition

Avatar photo
Saturday Linkages
...s and safety: a case study in difficult epidemiology – Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2013/12/15/bike-helmets-and-safety-a-cas.html … Avoid Antibacterial Soaps, Say Consumer Advocates http://on.natgeo.com/18Pptyh Arizona Food and Farm Finance Forum 2014 http://garynabhan.com/i/archives/2366 Practical Permaculture – Planting Under Fruit Trees http://wp.me/p2Lm7J-wK For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

Read…

Saturday Linkages: Sad Cookbooks, Pancakes and Tiny Homes

Avatar photo
Saturday Linkages
1 Comment
...om/e/EEk6UuSd Teacher Builds Tiny House in the Forest http://shar.es/9K57L Food Chain Restoration: Reconnecting Pollinators with Their Plants http://feedly.com/e/Q3gdfekh Cool hut? http://feedly.com/e/OQ1pOJ6a The Electricity-Generating Bicycle Desk That Would Power the World – James Hamblin – The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/the-electricity-generating-bicycle-desk-that-would-power-the-world/282692/ … Here’s How Ridic...

Read…

Organic Seed Growers Webinar

Avatar photo
Events
1 Comment
...nd market needs of organic farmers is fundamental to their success and the food system they supply. The organic community has seen tremendous progress in the expansion of organic seed availability. Still, most organic farmers are planting non-organic seed. This session will focus on improving access to, and the use of, organic seed. Topics will include the importance of organic seed in the context of organic integrity and the principle of continua...

Read…

A viewing suggestion from the media arm of Root Simple

Avatar photo
Domesticus, Food, Gardening, Preparedness, Resources, Thoughtstylings
34 Comments
.... How to make rush lights out of sheep fat and rushes. An almost forgotten food plant called Alexanders, which is a Mediterranean plant related to parsley, which I’ve never heard of but now want to plant in my garden. Tips on calligraphy done with quills. Did you know the quill has to be almost horizontal in the hand? And how to make a paintbrush out of a feather and a stick. Marvelously clever, and the secret to the fine lines in illuminated manu...

Read…