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The Times Discovers That Canning is the New Knitting

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San Franciscans are by now familiar with underground farmers’ markets and backyard beekeepers, and now the NYT catches wind of what practitioners are calling ‘urban homesteading,’ which is basically a catch-all term for growing your own food, making your own hooch, and doing your own canning and pickling. The piece touches on L.A.-based writers Erik Knutsen and Kelly Coyne, authors of The Urban Homestead, as well as USF professor Melinda Stone who started this homesteading website and is probably getting buzzed off her own basement-brewed hard cider as we speak.

That Big Farm Called San Francisco
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The Times Discovers That Canning is the New Knitting