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Homegrown San Francisco Events

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Events
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...ood when you don’t have any dirt to call your own. The Studio for Urban Projects is located at 3579 17th St., San Francisco (between Dolores & Guerrero). Also, in San Francisco this coming weekend make sure to catch the folks at How To Homestead on Saturday, April 4 at the Other Cinema at 8:30 PM for some brand new homesteading movies, homebrew tastings, and the “butt-shaking musical antics of the Goat Family.” The Other Cinema is located at ATA G...

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Erik on WFAE’s Charlotte Talks

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...Laura Denyes – co-owner, Wish We Had Acres Farm Dr. Dave Hamilton – co-owner, Wish We Had Acres Farm; Naturopathic Doctor, Carolinas Natural Health in Matthews Erik Knutzen – author, blogger and podcaster, The Urban Homestead, Making It: Radical Home Economics for a Post-Consumer World and Root Simple; co-founder, Los Angeles Bread Bakers The show will be available for streaming around noon EST here....

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How to Keep Skunks Out of the Yard

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Gardening, Pests
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...to take all these preventative measures (such as the front yard) I’ve got fruit trees, native plants and cardoons–things skunks can’t uproot. The two vegetable beds I have in the front yard have to be encased in bird netting since there’s no way to fence in the entire front yard (it’s a steep slope). I inferred that skunks are an enemy earlier in this post. The fact is that skunks are here to stay and are part of our urban ecosystem. They have fo...

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An Ancient Quince Recipe

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Food, Food Preservation, Fruit Trees, Gardening
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...he browned part. Each year the question comes up as to what to do with the fruit. You can eat Karp’s Sweet quince raw, but the texture is still quince-like, which is to say somewhat gritty and course. And each year I promise I’ll pick up a copy of Barbara Ghazarian’s comprehensive book Simply Quince , but somehow I never get around to it. Last year I tried to make quince jelly, but overshot the jell point and ended up with jars of delicious tastin...

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Grafted Tomatoes: Hope for the Frustrated Home Gardener?

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Gardening, Tomatoes
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...ated our analysis of relationships between some experimental variables and fruit yields and quality. While this research focused on commercial growers I suspect grafted tomatoes might be a good option for us backyard tomato enthusiasts. If you, like us, lack the space to rotate your tomato growing year to year, pathogens can build up in the soil. Grafted tomatoes, while not a magic pill or an excuse for poor soil stewardship, might be a worthwhile...

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