More on our gardening disasters

January 21, 2013

...ll agree that it really, truly has been a terrible year in the garden. Sometimes Erik gets a little melodramatic when it comes to the crop failure (e.g. the Squash Baby adventure) but the truth is we’ve never, ever had such a sorry string off disasters and non-starters since we began gardening. And I think that’s something to keep in mind. This is unusual. When things are going wrong, it’s easy to forget how often they go right. That’s why it’s go...

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What Will Be the New Kale?

Mr. Homegrown

October 31, 2014

Food, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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Our 2011 crop of spigarello. Since 2011, we’ve been saying that Spigarello is the new kale. Thanks to a tip from the folks at Winnetka Farms, we may need to wait for BroccoLeaf™ to have its fifteen minutes of fame as the new kale. The Salinas, California based Foxy Organic is, quite sensibly, marketing broccoli leaves. Broccoli leaves are indeed edible and tasty. Foxy has the recursive media to prove it, a Facebook photo of someone Instagramming...

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A Homemade Mattress?

Mrs. Homegrown

March 15, 2013

Design, Domesticus

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...out of them for convenience: http://marie.nature.over-blog.fr/article-des-matelas-sains-63392164.html http://planetrepair.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/making-my-bed-literally/ http://butterpies.com/making-the-bed/ Save...

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Time Banking

Mr. Homegrown

November 12, 2008

Miscellaneous

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...of our hard earned capital away from the Wall Street types? Get ready for time banking. With time banking, you get together with your local community members, friends and family and exchange hours rather than currency. Time Bank USA describes the concept succinctly: “For every hour you spend doing something for someone in your community, you earn one Time Dollar. Then you have a Time Dollar to spend on having someone do something for you.” Time b...

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Make Your Own Chalkboard Paint II

Mr. Homegrown

October 30, 2017

Design

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...e Root Simple compound was making our own chalkboard paint and using it to label all of the cabinets in our garage workshop. In the past month, inspired by a visit from über-maker Federico Tobon, I’ve taken up the task of pimping out the workshop with a proper workbench and table saw. I’ll blog about Workshop 2.0 when I’m finished with the renovation, but the chalkboard paint hack is worth a repeat mention. Thanks to the chalkboard paint, when I w...

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