Day 20 – Mason Bee House From Reclaimed Wood

January 21, 2013

 Giving Old Wood New Life: Several years ago, I discovered a shop on Etsy that made lovely pieces for the home and garden using reclaimed wood. To this day, Andrew’s Reclaimed is still one of my favorite Etsy stops. Andrew and his wife, Melissa work as a team in this wood working business. Every piece [...]

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Day 19: Garden Show Inspiration & Ideas

January 20, 2013

Why Visit a Garden Show? There are many garden shows across the country and most happen in late winter or early spring. Everyone has their favorite. Some gardeners go to experience color in the dead of winter. Others are looking for inspiration before diving into their own backyards again. And some  are looking for the [...]

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Day 18 – Expert Tips for Long Term Food Storage

January 19, 2013

It happens to all of us. You make a great purchase at a farmer’s market for a bushel of vegetables A friend calls begging for you to come harvest the fruit off her over-burdened tree You have a crop in your backyard go all “crazy” with produce. Each of these situations leave you with an [...]

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Day 17 – The Backyard Parables & Book Giveaway

January 17, 2013

“I hope that people will think about the garden’s harvest as more than ripe tomatoes and cutting flowers…To me the ‘other’ part of the harvest… The garden’s life lessons, its parables—about control (or lack of it), about letting go, about the cycles and the giant web of interconnected life—are the really juicy stuff. Be sure [...]

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Day 16 – Online Chicken Keeping Supplies

January 16, 2013

If you are a city homesteader like me, you don’t have access to a big farm supply store to get equipment for your chickens. Some of my friends who to live in a places like Portland and Seattle can just go to their local independent nurseries to find chicken keeping and homesteading supplies! But here [...]

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Day 15 – The Halfway Mark on the Journey

January 15, 2013

So as of today, I have made it half way through the month of doing daily posts. Seriously? What was I thinking?! Just kidding! Actually, it’s been great so far. I even had one post go a little viral, which was awesome. (Pssst – Welcome to all the new readers who signed up for the [...]

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Day 14 – Heirlooms and a Baker Creek Seed Giveaway

January 14, 2013

Curious about heirloom plants? Or maybe you are already on board the heirloom bandwagon and are just interested in something really unique to grow this season? Well, today’s post features a giveaway of heirloom seeds from Baker Creek! (The giveaway is over, but there is still great info below on heirlooms!)

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Day 13 – Must Fresh Eggs Be Refrigerated?

January 13, 2013

The most recent  31 Days of Living Homegrown posts have focused a lot on agriculture and our food system. So I thought it was time change it up. Let’s get back to some homesteading topics! So here we go… Keeping Fresh Eggs on the Counter The subject of whether or not to refrigerate home-harvested eggs is a [...]

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Day 12 – Teaching Kids About Food & Growing

January 12, 2013

Hey Kids, Do You Know the Story of Your Food? There is a great resource I use for some of my work with educational school gardens here in Los Angeles. It is a website  and educational initiative called Nourish and it is really geared toward all ages, not just kids. I find that their short [...]

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Day 11 – So You Want to be a Farmer?

January 12, 2013

I am not in a position to give advice on how to farm. But one thing I have learned from from my farmer friends and the inspiring farmers I have interviewed for our PBS TV show (Joel Salatin, Farmer D and others) is that there are some great resources out there that people can tap [...]

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