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Denver and Los Angeles Experience Crowds Staring at Chicken Coops

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Animals, Chickens, Events
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...ts with the handy networking tool known as the internet. Above, the Denver Urban Homesteading meetup group. If you’re in the Denver area (where Mrs. Homegrown Evolution spent her formative years) get to know these fine folks at: http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Denver-Urban-Homesteaders/ LA Urban Homesteaders looking at a chicken coop. Photo by Elon Schoenholz In a strikingly similar photo, our urban livestock workshop that we hosted yesterday featur...

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Saturday Linkages: Fueling Up

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Saturday Linkages
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...made-briquettes-and-logs/ … Thoughtstylings Mark Bittman: A Simple Fix for Farming http://nyti.ms/VjNlZb Fueling up: http://we2our2.blogspot.com/2012/10/fueling-up.html … Health The Island Where People Forget to Die http://nyti.ms/S3Mitk Bikes Nice graphic showing why taking the lane is a good idea. http://ow.ly/eIgHH (via Commute Orlando) From the Root Simple Archive Appletastic Apple Cake https://www.rootsimple.com/2010/12/applet For these links...

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Garden Amendments as Placebos

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Gardening, Soil, Thoughtstylings
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...about other controversial soil additives popular in organic gardening and farming circles right now such as rock dust, mycorrhizae additives, and biochar. Now I prefer not to touch these topics with a hundred foot pole. But let me go out on a limb with a thoughtstyling outside of the usual debate about the benefits or worthlessness of these soil potions. I’ve started wondering if the strong anecdotal evidence supporting things like ACT, biochar e...

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Homegrown Evolution in Chicago

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Events
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...ter with: nettlesting@yahoo.com Erik will lead an informal presentation on Urban Homesteading in Los Angeles – focusing on his and his wife’s homegrown systems of adventurous experimentation of chickens, growing, greywater, brewing and more – some successful, some not so much! Copies of The Urban Homestead will be for sale. Many thanks to Nancy Klehm for arranging these events! See her website Spontaneous Vegetation for more info on other events a...

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