Homegrown Revolution at the Silver Lake Film Festival

April 27, 2007

...f the Sustainable LA program on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY May 6th at 11:30 a.m. at the LosFeliz 3 (1822 North Vermont Avenue-map). We’ll be sharing a program with composting Culver City comrade Elon Schoenholz, the Fallen Fruit dudes, and even the illustrious Midnight Ridazz, who have agreed to wake up before noon to attend. Join us for the after-party, and the after-after-party during which we’ll go find a barricade to storm....

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Saturday Tweets: We Really Need a Cat Pajama Party

Mr. Homegrown

October 20, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...Nat Geo on the work of the Felix Gillette Inst. https://t.co/7PLYLINiSL — Fruit Cornucopia (@ValenzuelaJohn) October 17, 2018 British Hoarders Stock Up on Supplies, Preparing for Brexit https://t.co/mKgQGa5qF3 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 17, 2018 It's the birthright of bees to build comb https://t.co/Sx3LUo4LAP — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 14, 2018 If you like the #SHOT2018 venue you’re gonna love our panel on trains, buses, ro...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Grub

Mr. Homegrown

October 2, 2009

Animals, Chickens, Composting

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...into valuable resource.” To raise Hermetia illucens you put vegetable and fruit trimmings in a container with a small opening for the black soldier fly females to fly in and lay their eggs and a method for the grubs to climb out of the compost. You can also feed them small amounts of fish and meat but they can’t digest cellulesic materials. A company called ESR International markets a black soldier fly growing system called the BioPod™ at www.the...

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Worm Composting

Mr. Homegrown

July 25, 2006

Composting, Gardening, Vermiculture

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...kitchen scraps. However, you can find yourself with unpleasant smells and fruit flies if you add too many scraps for the little buggers to digest. We had problems maintaining the correct moisture level in the bin and ended up drowning a bunch of the hapless critters when we accidentally left the worm composter out in the rain. In the end we released our worms into our large compost pile, where they live very happily, occasionally humming the tune...

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Mutant Squash

Mr. Homegrown

August 1, 2006

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

...his summer they seem to have hybridized again and now yield less flavorful fruit. More information on the botany of pollination and advice on saving vegetable seeds can be found in this excellent article. Also of note, the new issue of Make Magazine, the Popular Mechanics of the geeky hipster art school crowd has a story on “hacking your backyard plants”. But in the meantime, a tip of the SurviveLA hat to a new squash variety: Cucurbitaceae Nusia....

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