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Eco

Bugs Ate My Garden

Homegrown Evolution

Few things are more frustrating than tending vegetable plants only to see them mowed down overnight by a marauding band of insects. Here's what you can do. (more)

7-1-08

Commons

The New Urban Forager

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Foraging can help us through lean times and enrich flush times, and it puts us in touch with the plant world and the cycle of the seasons, even when we're strolling down grimy Sunset Boulevard. (more)

4-21-08

Eco

How to Save the World by Pooping in a Bucket

Homegrown Evolution

Perhaps it's time for some personal responsibility. Perhaps it's time for a poo revolution.(more)

1-29-08

Commons

Garden Like a Pirate

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To the landless urban farmer, every vacant lot, parkway, office building planter and apartment courtyard is a potential cornfield, orchard or vegetable patch. (more)

11-28-07

Life

Fermenting the Esoteric

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You need not be a Freemason to bring the wisdom of alchemy into your home. Experience the power of transformation by practicing the near-lost art of fermentation. By fermenting our own foods we physically engage with the transformative powers of nature, watch the processes as they happen, and then ingest them, making them part of ourselves. Today a new fermentation movement is... fermenting. [Note: This article includes a recipe for Daikon radish pickles.] (more)

10-3-07

Commons

Food Without Drudgery for Those Without Soil

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Some people manage to grow food in ordinary pots. But watering twice a day? Who has time for that? Enter the SWC, an inexpensive device guaranteed to save you from your own brown thumb and allow you to start your urban victory garden. (more)

8-23-07

Commons

Become an Urban Homesteader

Homegrown Evolution

On our little urban farm in the heart of Los Angeles we produce food, hack our house to generate power and recycle water, plot revolution and build community. You can too. Trust us, once you eat a sweet tomato still warm from the sun, or an orange-yolked egg from your own hen, you will never be satisfied with the pre-packaged and the factory-farmed again. (more)

7-31-07