I Gave Up Facebook for a Week and Didn’t Miss It

December 7, 2015

...ketchbook (I’d miss seeing those images if I deleted my account). Federico suggested some rules for using social media based on Michael Pollan’s food rules: “Post positive things. Mostly yours. Not too much.”...

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Saturday Tweets: The Short Holiday Version

Mr. Homegrown

December 19, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...Creating a food forest, step by step https://t.co/EbNzbzioiT pic.twitter.com/w4udZAFpbD — Permaculture (@PermacultuRRe) December 17, 2015 Car free living in LA: https://t.co/BqIysFjovk — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 17, 2015 New winterizing the beehives #beekeeping vids on https://t.co/1y6V4k5kYj pic.twitter.com/C5wuxtE1OD — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) December 3, 2015...

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More boneheaded plant representations from Hollywood

Mrs. Homegrown

January 4, 2016

Gardening, Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings

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...te world, no one needs to know the name of any plant to get by day to day (food plants excepted), but if a person ever intends to go outside (optional, I know) they’d better know how to identify local plants which cause contact dermatitis. Like poison sumac. Poison sumac (Toxicodendron vernix) is a shrub or tree which grows in wet spots in the Eastern parts of the U.S. and Canada. It looks nothing whatsoever like a fern. Or a pansy. It is apparent...

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How to Make a Simple Paint Can Rocket Stove

Mr. Homegrown

February 24, 2016

Appropriate Technology, Rocket Stove, Water and Power

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...es achieved in a true rocket stove combustion chamber.“ Rocket stoves cook food with small pieces of wood efficiently and with much less smoke than conventional wood burning stoves. They also help prevent deforestation since you can burn small twigs trimmed off a tree rather than burning logs. Search the interwebs and you’ll find may different designs. But they are all based on burning wood in an “L” shaped tube to create a chimney effect. Insulat...

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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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