When you don’t have any land
Do you love the idea of vegetable gardening and edible landscaping? Do you wish you could participate – if only you had access to land? If land is your problem (inadequate space, an unwilling landlord, whatever) then my newest booklet…
Adobe Brick-making Success!
This past Saturday, we had LOTS of fun making adobe bricks at the Community Garden. Kids, both small and tall, got to experience squishy-squashy mud. It is so tactile and cool and smooth, and once you start, you just can’t…
The cob oven at RootSimple homestead
Mr Homegrown of RootSimple shared this video of their construction process. He is part of the team, advising us as we plan how to build the cob oven at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity.
A community bread oven
Last Saturday we had the kickoff meeting for a new project: building a community bread oven out of cob. What’s cob? For us in Southern California, the easiest comparison is to think about the adobe bricks used for the missions;…