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Build a Rocket Stove

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Preparedness
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...ned by the fact that the pot is heated on the sides as well as the bottom. Homegrown Evolution was delighted to find a how to build a rocket stove video (with a Euro disco soundtrack!) hosted by a goth dude named “vavrek”: Other Rocket Stove Designs The Aprovecho Research Center, a non-profit organization devoted to improving conditions in third world countries through the development of low cost, simple cooking and heating technologies have devel...

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Blueberries in a Self Watering Container

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Gardening, Self Watering Containers
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It may not be pretty but Homegrown Revolution has blueberries. To grow blueberries in a warm climate such as Los Angeles you’ll need to choose a heat tolerant southern highbush variety. Southern highbush blueberries are hybrids that don’t require the winter chilling of their northern relatives. Blueberries also need cross pollination so they should be planted in pairs. We mail ordered two different varieties, “Oneal” and “Misty” in bare root form...

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Our Favorite Searches

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Thoughtstylings
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Homegrown Revolution occasionally gets a laugh reviewing the search phrases that land people on this blog. At times the phrases resemble a kind of random internet haiku. We thought we’d review a few of them and respond. “is Roundup bad for cats” YES! Roundup, Monsanto’s ubiquitous herbicide, is bad for all living things. “how to survive living out of your car” We’d suggest a subscription to Dwelling Portably for answers to that. “how to make meth...

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Cooking with Poo

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Composting, Humanure
Homegrown Revolution Toronto correspondent Nicholas Sammond wrote us this morning asking if it would be possible to generate enough methane in his new abode via a composting toilet to cook with. It’s a great question since once abundant natural gas is getting scarce and expensive here in North America, and the desperation has gotten to the point that large and dangerous liquefied natural gas terminals are in the proposal stage across the continen...

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Earth Day in LA

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Thoughtstylings
...Homegrown Revolution spent Earth Day at the Sierra Club’s first annual Environmental Film Festival in Griffith Park. For those of you who missed it here’s a highlight, Breathless in LA about the plight of folks who live next to the port:...

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