Homegrown Evolution
Mead making, beer brewing, bread baking, urban poultry raising, container planting, pirate gardening, foraging, pickling, bicycle-powered hauling, solar-oven making and anti-car culture ranting are just a fraction of what you’ll absorb plumbing the archives of HomegrownEvolution.com. Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen, husband and wife urban homesteaders, guide those of us who can’t make it back to the land on how best to incorporate aspects of it into our modern city-bound lives.
They’re encouraging, but don’t preach or pretend to be perfect, and therein lies their appeal. Erik and Kelly are friends of mine, and over the past few years their website and their book, The Urban Homestead, have led my household, step by small step, to be less consumptive and more productive.
Here's an instructional video on how to make your own self-watering container. If you plan to undertake this project, be sure to use a food-grade bucket, as the authors recommend in The Urban Homestead. SurviveLA was the original name of the Homegrown Evolution website. -- ES
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epfroth
It's not an allergy, it's lack of an enzyme (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase), which makes them vulnerable to hemolysis (breakdown of red blood cells) under stress. Fava beans can trigger hemolysis in individuals with G6PD deficiency.
c-dub
Thank goodness you clarified that.
archer
fantastic!
much gratitude.
John
Ah. I've actually been looking for a resource like this. Thanks, Elon! It might not map to New York's climate, but it's at least a start.