Search Results for: label/vegetable gardening/2011/04/making-it/2010/06/the-urban-homestead

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Hexagonal Raised Vegetable Beds: SketchUp Saves the Day

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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I must again sing the praises of SketchUp, the free 3d modeling program that has been incredibly useful around the Root Simple compound. This weekend it was time to design some new raised beds and I didn’t want the usual rectangular configuration. SketchUp allowed me to quickly draw up a plan and estimate materials. Using SketchUp’s protractor tool I figured out the angle I needed to cut the wood. I suppose I could have looked up the angles of a...

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Matching Your Waste Stream to Your Composting Method

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Composting, Gardening, Vermiculture
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...t be added like citrus and onions. Conventional compost pile If you have a vegetable garden and want to grow organically, you’ll need to generate a large amount of compost. This is a great way to deal with yard trimmings, grass, manure, and food waste. Advantages: makes the kind of high quality compost needed in large quantities for a vegetable garden. Disadvantages: a lot of work, can’t be added too once the pile is built, may require car trips t...

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A White House Vegetable Garden

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Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening
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...rnia’s Chez Panisse. Waters asked then president Bill Clinton to grow some vegetables at the White House. Clinton responded, “send me the seeds Alice” only to renege on the idea, claiming that it would interfere with the historic and formal White House garden plans. But what about that White House putting green? San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom broke ground this summer on a kitchen garden at city hall. Former mayor “slick” Willie Brown responded l...

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Kickstart the North Memphis Farmers Collective

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Gardening, Urban Farming
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...o, a high school math teacher in Memphis whose garden got him in trouble in 2011 (and whose cat allegedly damaged a neighbor’s 1991 Cadillac Seville–the horrors!). As often is the case in these stories, there’s a happy ending. What began in one yard has grown into an urban farming movement transforming vacant lots into sources of food and jobs. There’s a Kickstarter: The City of Memphis faces many challenges. Among them are blighted vacant lots, f...

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