Steve Solomon’s Soil and Health e-Library

October 23, 2012

...ntains books on “holistic agriculture, holistic health and self-sufficient homestead living” You can download the books for free, but Solomon requests a modest $13 donation. You can find this amazing resource at: www.soilandhealth.org. The “Radical Agriculture” part of the archive contains many early organic ag classics by authors such as Sir Albert Howard, J.I. Rodale and Ehrenfried Pfeiffer. The “Homesteading” part of the library contains tomes...

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That ain’t a bowl full of larvae, it’s crosne!

Mr. Homegrown

January 21, 2010

Gardening, Self Watering Containers, Vegetable Gardening

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...n, justifiably, gives me a hard time for growing strange things around the homestead. This week I just completed the world’s smallest harvest of a root vegetable popularly known as crosne (Stachys affinis). Crosne, also known as Chinese artichoke, chorogi, knotroot and artichoke betony is a member of the mint family that produces a tiny edible tuber. While looking like any other mint plant, the leaves have no smell. The tubers look all too much li...

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Plastic or Wood?

Mr. Homegrown

June 7, 2007

Thoughtstylings

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...these are the new rules. We are going to phase as many plastics out of the homestead as we can. We won’t toss what we have in the landfill right now, but when it is time to replace it, this is how it’s going down: Wood and metal utensils instead of plastic Glass storage containers instead of Tupperwear Wool blankets instead of Polarfleece blankets Down filling instead of polyester filling (even for allergy sufferers)* Silk and wool fabrics for ath...

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Get Off Your Ass and Plant a Survival Garden!

Mr. Homegrown

July 14, 2006

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

...t can take the heat like tomatoes and basil. So get out there and plant your own food and remember our rule here around the Homegrown Evolution homestead: if you gotta water it you gotta be able to eat it....

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Saturday Tweets: Naked Gardening Day Edition

Mr. Homegrown

May 2, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...on — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 Something from Nothing – DIY Solar heater from scrap bottles http://t.co/Ygle3ndjDD — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 CNN: Home-canned potatoes to blame for botulism outbreak http://t.co/cyjUmx4dNr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 Britain has a poo-powered bus. But does its design campaign stink? http://t.co/DBNhOmYD1T via @slate — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 Where can y...

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