056 Winnetka Farms Part 1

August 5, 2015

Gardening, Podcasts, Squash Baby, Vegetable Gardening

...lian vegetables. In the second part, on next week’s podcast, we’ll discuss urban livestock. During part 1 Craig mentions: Spigarello as the new kale Radicchio di Castelfranco Red Pear Tomato Striato di Napoli zucchini Lunga di Napoli squash Making pumpkin syrup Candied fruits Cardoons If you’d like to stay in touch with Craig you can find him at The Kitchen at Winnetka Farms. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call...

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A Lecture on the Connection Between Cats and Grain

Mr. Homegrown

May 24, 2016

Animals, Cats, Events

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If not for cats would we have bread? On Saturday June 4th at 2 p.m. at the Los Angeles Bread Festival at Grand Central Market I’m going to deliver a talk on the connection between cats and grain. The connection is a basic one: store grain and you get vermin. Then you need cats. But, in the course of preparing for this lecture, I discovered that the commonly held narrative of cat domestication is an unsubstantiated fiction. That narrative goes som...

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Stuff to do in February and March

Mr. Homegrown

February 23, 2016

Events

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...piscopal Cathedral that will dump freeway speed traffic right in front of a new bike lane. Tell them no! More info here. Wednesday, 2/24 Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council Meeting to SAVE PROYECTO JARDIN Thursday, 2/5 Save The Hahamongna Nursery Saturday, 2/27 Curious about aquaponics? Come help and with the aquaponic installation at the Micheltorena School Garden. Tuesday, 3/15 CERT training in Silver Lake (the LAFD site erroneously reads “Echo P...

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Soil Positive or just Soil Curious? Join Nancy Klehm For a Workshop on Soils

Mrs. Homegrown

January 11, 2016

Events

...conservation, so come and learn! Soil Truthing – A Hands-On Workshop When: Saturday, February 6th Hours: 10am – 4pm Where: Silver Lake, address provided upon registration Cost: $75 Class size: 6 – 15 people Facilitator: Nance Klehm, Director of Social Ecologies , www.socialecologies.net (See bio below) Class Plan: 1. introductions and bio-remediation presentation 2. landscape reading exercise in neighborhood ~potluck lunch 3. compost bin and soil...

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A Painful Beekeeping Lesson

Mr. Homegrown

July 20, 2015

Animals, Bees

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...mmediate feedback. A freak summer storm descended on Los Angeles this past Saturday. Lighting strikes knocked the power out in many places and lit palm trees on fire. Unfortunately for me, the deluge softened the soil underneath one of the legs of one of my beehives causing it to fall over and knock over another hive. I didn’t discover this situation until 7 p.m. as it was getting dark. Kelly was out of town and I was alone in the backyard staring...

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