3 Mules Update

...start on the next leg of his trip to who knows where. He accepts a cup of coffee that I have brought with me. He talks a bit, very softly. With some reluctance he allows me to retrieve the video camera from my car. Surprisingly, with the camera running, he talks more. I learn that this 65-year-old man calls himself Mule, considering himself “just another one of the mules.” They have traveled for nearly three decades, through sixteen states and in...

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Saturday Tweets: 12 Hours in an Ikea, Bike Helmets, How to Fix Drywall and Much More

...t.co/MYTNVL8XB7 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 20, 2017 Live Edge River Coffee Table | How to Build https://t.co/H0rf0PYT6e — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 23, 2017 Listen to the sounds of an office, a vinyl record from 1964 https://t.co/GABfqllB2p — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 24, 2017 'My chickens saved my life' https://t.co/So8lOmUUW9 pic.twitter.com/PShnFdFVYh — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) March 25, 2017 Man dies aft...

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Nature Fest this Weekend!

...one in collaboration with the Ecology Center, on container gardening, rainwater harvesting, bicycle basics, backyard chickens and food preservation. They’ll be priced to fly out of those boxes in my garage! I’ll also be doing a coffee demo at 1pm on both Saturday and Sunday and dispensing free advice in the booth for the entirety of the festival. Please drop by and hang out. And dig the book racks I built out of scrap plywood! See you this weekend...

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A Tour of the Homegrown Evolution Compound

...everybody else–there’s no room for a wheat field after all, nor do we grow coffee or a host of other necessary staples. But, we seldom buy greens at the store, and almost never buy herbs or eggs–we’ve got that taken care of in the garden. In the summer we have lots of tomatoes, and right now we have a few avocados. When the fruit trees mature in a few years we’ll have fruit. We’re hippies. Don’t get us wrong, we love hippies. We have no problems w...

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Book Review: The Urban Bestiary

...s. Imagine you had a friend who was a naturalist who could explain the mysteries of the familiar yet unfamiliar wildlife which flit and shuffle through your backyard over a nice cup of coffee. Someone who could offer you an introduction to their world, and a chance to see your own world in a new light. This would be that book....

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