What Is Affordable Housing or Low-Cost Housing? Finding New Terms: “The Under $20,000 House” This weekend I came back from Arizona for a few days and was so amazed at all Peter had gotten done on the fence, gates, and arbors for our house. That led us to talking about what to call this kind [...]
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I love when I walk in our yard. I follow a specific route through the arbor covered with sweet potato vines, past the pepper plants and cilantro, and then along the walkway that is flanked by a profusion of tomato plants. I smell the plants and marvel at their growth in this triple digit desert [...]
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I am currently serving as, what you might call, our yard “engineer”/ “architectural mechanic”/ “laborer”. In other words I am working on building arbors, fences, gates, and even walls, throughout our yard. I am in that mode where I have my mind on tools so my thoughts are focused on how to manoeuver in tight [...]
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Brenda Barnes, President, Home Grown Food Network, Inc. July 6, 2008 Towards a brief history of demonstrating! I’m writing this blog because I was googling for how to replace an aluminum mobilehome window with a plexiglass door. Someone in Brooklyn had a sliding-glass door and I clicked the box next to the article on “conspicuous [...]
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I want to update my earlier post on YAWNS. I mentioned there that it might be ok for a successful filmmaker and his family (YAWN) living near Berkeley, California to dry their clothes on a line, grow their own vegetables and buy what they need at garage sales and second-hand stores, but if you happen [...]
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It is always interesting when those who live in the hallowed halls of academia tiptoe out into the real world and come up with a new label for behaviors they observe in human beings, especially human beings in the market place. I remember when, in the late eighties after the market crash of ’87, a [...]
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