Saturday Tweets: A Difficult Week

November 10, 2018

...t to stop hillside erosion? Learn how to stabilize a hillside and increase garden fertility by building a check log terrace garden. For more check log tips: https://t.co/GFz5zpBkut https://t.co/2l2yQuhMrg — Tenth Acre Farm (@tenthacrefarm) November 7, 2018 In honor of fall, reupping this story of a Toronto neighborhood activist who used leaves to show how much excess pavement could be recaptured as people space. They called it a “leafy knockdown”...

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Food Storage Revisited

Mr. Homegrown

November 2, 2018

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...also clarify that if you live out in the country and have a big vegetable garden you will need a larger pantry or basement. We are urban dwellers with, at best, a tiny vegetable garden (which has been neglected this year while I work on the house). That said there are some big differences between the kitchens of the 1920s and the kitchens of today that present new challenges. Some of those changes: We have a lot more kitchen gadgets and consumer...

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126 The Wild Yards Project with David Newsom

Mr. Homegrown

October 17, 2018

Gardening, Native Plants, Podcasts

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...sletter (at bottom of page) Native plants for realtors The Gottlieb Native Garden: A California Love Story LA Natural History Museum Garden @plasticarmy on Instagram If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Closing theme music by Dr. Frankenstein. A downloadable version of this podcast is h...

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Saturday Linkages: Beetle Party, Floating Homes and Cilantro

Mr. Homegrown

June 9, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...lantro is one of our favorite crops to succession sow. Start a row in your garden every couple of weeks so you have a constant supply. Plant some this weekend! pic.twitter.com/MbbEacOH2k — The Works Seattle (@theworksseattle) June 8, 2018 LAPD Announces Arrests in Hit-and-Runs that Killed Frederick Frazier and Injured Quatrell Stallings https://t.co/oZBTRwQQen via @StreetsblogLA — sahra (@sahrasulaiman) June 8, 2018 This commitment does not mentio...

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The Luddite’s Moonshot

Mr. Homegrown

June 4, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...an help with: Mediterranean gardening with perennial food crops. Mammalian garden invasions, i.e. those infernal squirrels/raccoons/skunks. Meal preparation for busy people. I realize the tech bros have taken up this problem with services such as Blue Apron and Hello Fresh. But I think there’s a better way we can do this at home without the shipping and packaging. Preventing food waste in the home. Internet distraction/news addiction. Garden desig...

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