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Chicken Talk at the LA Green Fest Saturday November 17

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Events
I’ll be doing a talk about keeping chickens on Saturday, November 17 at 2:00 pm at the Los Angeles Green Festival. Topics will include: How to construct a chicken coop What’s involved in keeping chickens Predator proofing What to feed your chickens Chicks vs. pullets The Green Festival will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Kentia Hall, 1201 South Figueroa Street. The convention center is right next to the Metro Blue Line and the...

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Saturday Tweets: Weeds, Bees and General Crankiness

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Saturday Linkages
...s://t.co/5VMMPh6GXY — StreetsblogLA (@StreetsblogLA) June 1, 2018 It's Saturday..Time to gather your squad for an adventure in the sun. Tag your crew on this photo and start planning for your next #myCicLAvia adventure. It will be a day of FUN in The Valley on June 24th..Don't miss out!! #adventuretime #losangeles #thevalley #ciclavia pic.twitter.com/yrdWv125ND — CicLAvia (@CicLAvia) June 2, 2018 What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob...

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Primitive Grain Storage Technique

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Appropriate Technology, Food Preservation, How-to, Preparedness
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When thinking about technology, I like to play with the idea of what is the absolute minimum you need to get the job done. This may be because I’m not very handy at building things, but yet have survivalist tendencies. So while I’m pretty sure I’ll never actually have any need for these skills, it’s fun to think about how I’d get by in a DIY world. So I was delighted when I ran across this minimalist grain storage technique on the BBC documentary...

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Planting a Mini-Orchard

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Gardening, Water and Power, Water Conservation
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Ignore the bucket in this illustration! See update below. Update 3/13/2011: I met Brad Lancaster last night and he told me that he and Art Ludwig no longer use the upside down bucket described in this post. The reason is that detergents can build up in the hole. In my experience the bucket was also an unnecessary step. While I have a clay soil, the hillside drains fairly well. A properly sized mulch basin should suffice to allow greywater to infi...

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