Erik Talks Straw Bales on C-Realm Radio

...podcaster (and, as of last month, radio host) KMO. The topic is straw bale gardening. KMO talks first to straw bale garden expert Joel Karsten. Then I chime in enthusiastically on the topic. I’m followed by gardener and artist Lauren Blair. We’re all sort of an opening act for an entertaining 1990s era recording of Terrance McKenna thoughtstyling about “linguistic objects”. One interesting point that Karsten raises is the issue of persistent herbi...

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Saturday Tweets: Soviet Bus Stops, Sitting and a Life on Tires

.../MgYRkH1jHw via @WIRED — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 2, 2015 Fans of Garden Design Magazine | Garden Rant http://t.co/XAPsZmorPO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 30, 2015 Beautiful #sukkot you’ll want to make yourself http://t.co/leRColui4L via @HuffPostRelig — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 30, 2015 BBC News – Shell stops Arctic activity after ‘disappointing’ tests http://t.co/wku4nFACjD #ShellNo — Root Simple (@rootsimple) Septem...

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Flowers from Vegetables

...g my garden “unproductive” but the rewards outweigh any inconvenience. New gardeners are often surprised to see what amazing flowers different vegetables make. People with no connection to food plants whatsoever may not even know that vegetables make flowers, so it’s fun to show them a carrot flower, a squash blossom, a bean flower. My new favorite garden flower comes off an old Italian chicory plant left to go riot. I’m not sure which chicory it...

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Saturday Tweets: Sheds, Roots and Odd Pie Shapes

...onse we got: http://t.co/THoKAXC7OS pic.twitter.com/GhWCH8feGr — Telegraph Gardening (@TeleGardening) May 8, 2015 The real story behind the demise of America’s once-mighty streetcars http://t.co/lTZWUjdk3g via @voxdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 8, 2015 Odd pie shapes of the 17th century: http://t.co/4Zhy9HZOaO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 7, 2015 An indoor garden built of veg scraps–looks like a fun thing for kids (and maybe some adults...

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Day to day, our decisions count

...o I like because they are achievable on a home-scale. Remember, we are all gardeners, whether we have land or not. Every day we tend the garden which is the world. At the market Do we buy food grown close to home, or from far across the world? Who is growing our food, and how? We can commit to buying seasonal food grown close to home by farmers who are invested in the long term health of their land and soil. Practically, this means avoiding superm...

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