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Agitate, Educate, Pollinate! That’s the battle cry for the new Institute of Urban Homesteading in Oakland California. It doesn’t matter what you call it–urban homesteading, urban farming, or just plain growing your own vegetables–everyone wants to learn how to do it. The Institute’s goal is to “preserve a slower, more intentional, more sustainable and more pleasurable way of life, rescue the lost arts of the garden, the kitchen and things done by hand and imbue everyday tasks with wonder and beauty.”