In a recent blog, one of my favorite bloggers, GrrlScientist, has a picture of a homeless lady in New York city eating cat food . The blog highlights the reaction of New York City to the findings of New York State auditors who have discovered “new data” about the costs of homelessness in that state.
As [...]
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Brenda Barnes, President
Home-Grown Food Network, Inc.
North Palm Springs-Joshua Tree, California
This week we made a lot of progress in our under-$20,000, easy, fast, cheap, self-made housing, edible landscaping, and renewable energy project.
We had updated my research from a few years ago last week and discovered in the county anything allowed in the zone can [...]
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Brenda Barnes, President
Home-Grown Food Network, Inc. July 4, 2009
North Palm Springs-Joshua Tree, California
I’m writing about another new phase in our under-$20,000, easy, fast, cheap, self-made housing, edible landscaping, and renewable energy project. We settled the case against the mobile home park, as I wrote about June 6, 2009.
Since then, we moved as much as [...]
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Starting out from scratch with a garden is an exciting prospect as Stephanie Paige Ogburn recently wrote. But what if you’re a renter, and you need to convince your landlord that “your garden to be” is not going to end up a mess? Convincing a reluctant landlord to allow you to dig up part [...]
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