Archive for April, 2010

New residential database shows distressing trend - Crain’s New York Business

Friday, April 30th, 2010

The Building Indicator Project database “has an amazing wealth of information,” said Dina Levy, director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board. The University Housing Program has been at it a long time. The group began tracking properties in the …

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New realty database sparks huge demand - Crain’s New York Business

Friday, April 30th, 2010
New realty database sparks huge demand
Crain’s New York Business
The Building Indicator Project database “has an amazing wealth of information,” said Dina Levy, director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board.

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Rain threatening TSD - Log Cabin Democrat

Friday, April 30th, 2010
Rain threatening TSD
Log Cabin Democrat
By Log Cabin Democrat Toad Suck vendors were opening booths in a slight rain this morning in downtown Conway. All events, however, were set to proceed as

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Writers Series: Lara Vesta & Kathlene Postma - Pacific University

Friday, April 30th, 2010
Writers Series: Lara Vesta & Kathlene Postma
Pacific University
Lara Vesta grew up in the deep woods of Wimer, Oregon with homesteading hippie parents. This explains her propensity toward tin bathtubs, playing outside

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Wanaka businesses ready but confident of no flooding - Otago Daily Times

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Otago Daily Times
Wanaka businesses ready but confident of no flooding
Otago Daily Times
Lakeland Adventures commercial operator Simon Stewart stands in front of the Log Cabin on Wanaka’s lake shore.

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Berkeley Bites: Novella Carpenter - Berkeleyside (blog)

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Berkeleyside (blog)
Berkeley Bites: Novella Carpenter
Berkeleyside (blog)
BioFuel Oasis also sells farm animal feed, beekeeping supplies, and other urban homesteading gear, and offers urban farming classes, including how to raise

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Preservation Month kicks off with several activities Saturday - Quincy Herald Whig

Friday, April 30th, 2010
Preservation Month kicks off with several activities Saturday
Quincy Herald Whig
The Lincoln Interpretive Center at 128 N. Fifth will be open from noon to 4 pm, and the Log Cabin Village on Quinsippi Island will be open from 1 to 4 pm

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Add to Cart - Mother Earth News

Friday, April 30th, 2010

The magazine has been publishing articles about homesteading, real food, sustainability and alternative energy since 1970. Find articles about underground homes, cheap solar power, organic gardening and raising chickens — plus hundreds of do-it …

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Levy farm among three named Century Pioneer Family … - Star-Banner

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Donald and Margaret Hurst are running an 80-acre farm in Lafayette County that became family property through a homesteading letter from President Benjamin Harrison to one of the family’s ancestors. The Hursts are producing straw and trees on land …

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New downtown bookstore opens Saturday - Grand Junction Free Press

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Later this summer the store will host Wyoming poet Rick Kempa, and Marcia Hensley, author of “Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West.” The new business created two new full-time jobs, and one part-time job. Neither the economy or …

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