Picture Sundays: A Chicken Coop Made From a Trampoline

October 28, 2012

...From the Homesteading/Survivalism Facebook page, a chicken coop made from a trampoline. Here’s a little more on the project. This coop appears to be a DIY variation on the Joel Salatin movable poultry pen. I’m assuming there’s a way to lock the chickens in the top part at night to keep out critters that might dig under the run....

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Picture Sundays: Why Cats Purr

Mr. Homegrown

October 21, 2012

Picture Sundays

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...Some solid science here. Not sure where this comes from, but spotted it on Doug Harvey’s Facebook page....

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Vegetable Gardening Workshops at the Natural History Museum

Mr. Homegrown

February 5, 2014

Events

...Master Gardener Florence Nishida will be teaching a four part vegetable gardening class starting in March. Florence is a great teacher and there are a number of discounted spaces for people in zip codes surrounding the Natural History Museum. To sign up for the class go to the museum’s event page or call 213 763-3349. Act soon as it’s sure to sell out....

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Vegetable Garden Note Taking

Mr. Homegrown

September 23, 2013

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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A page from Thomas Jefferson’s garden diary. My worst mistake in the fifteen years we have been gardening here in Los Angeles has been my shoddy note taking. Even though we don’t have frosts to contend with, it still can be tricky to figure out when to plant vegetables. In a lecture I attnded at the National Heirloom Exoposition, Sonoma County gardening guru Wendy Krupnick had a simple suggestion for what to take notes on in your vegetable garden...

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How To Capture a Bee Swarm With Kirk Anderson

Mr. Homegrown

March 4, 2013

Animals, Bees

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...nd not to be aggressive when they swarm (they have no honey to protect). To see more how-to videos featuring Kirk visit the video page of the Backwards Beekeepers....

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