Tree Spinach – Chenopodium giganteum

October 23, 2007

.... The billowing clouds of apocalyptic smoke from the fires ravaging the suburban fringes of our disaster prone megalopolis are the only thing that keeps us inside today, giving us time to contemplate one of the seed packets that has crossed our desk, Chenopodium giganteum a.k.a “tree spinach”. The Chenopodium family encompasses what less enlightened folks call “weeds” such as lambs quarters (also edible we’ll note), but also contains cultivated cr...

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Greywater Guerrillas in LA this Weekend

Mr. Homegrown

July 15, 2008

Water and Power, Water Conservation

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...ge from the Water Grid: With Greywater, Rainwater, and Composting Toilets. Time: 7:30- 9:00 Location: LA Ecovillage 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles, 90004 Cost: $10 (no one turned away) For more info contact Lois at the LA Ecovillage 213/738-1254 (www.laecovillage.org) How to Disengage from the Water Grid- with Rainwater, Greywater, and Composting Toilets. We will connect the water in our lives to local and global water struggles, look at rainwater...

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Tools for Conquering Internet Addiction

Mr. Homegrown

May 22, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...projects that provide fodder for this blog and for our books. I think it’s time for some drastic action. It’s time to limit certain highly additive and often counter-productive Internet activities such as email, social media and general surfing not related to my core mission. Two tools I’m evaluating are LeechBlock, which works with the Firefox browser and allows you to block up to six sets of sites for certain periods of the day and two Chrome-ba...

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Supper for a buck?

Mrs. Homegrown

February 25, 2013

Bean Fest, Food

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...the investment in the Dutch oven we use to bake the bread, amortized over time? This way lies madness. [Note: I have gone a little mad so I just figured out that there are 636 1/4 teaspoon measures in 1 pound of active dried yeast. 636 theoretical loaves. Problem is I don’t know how exactly much we pay per pound of yeast. We buy it in vacuum-packed 1 lb bags for about 4 or 5 dollars, I think. In any case, yeast costs are less than a penny a loaf....

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A Homemade Mattress?

Mrs. Homegrown

March 15, 2013

Design, Domesticus

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...n bodies. Yeah, that will work out well. I swear, their articles should be labeled “For Entertainment Purposes Only.” 5) Here’s an article from the Seattle Times about mattresses in landfills and the problem of recycling conventional mattresses. It will give you strength to continue your search. Anyway, I need to give this mattress business some more thought before I order a truckload of wool. Or decide to open my own wool mattress business in dow...

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