Saturday Tweets: It’s 2017!

...y @bramble36 https://t.co/bWFTOcHVk5 pic.twitter.com/cTOIyap8tz — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) January 6, 2017 $100 for a tablet and foldable wireless keyboard https://t.co/9sKiq88hv3 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 6, 2017 Love this project! 100% increase in both landscape #biodiversity and residential population #density can be achieved https://t.co/PJwlCZFBTy pic.twitter.com/KE9NWqLqWN — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) January 5, 2...

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Heirloom Expo in Photos

I highly recommend making the trip next year to Santa Rosa to see the National Heirloom Exposition put on by the folks at Baker Creek Seeds. The centerpiece of the expo is the massive display of hundreds of different varieties of squash, melons, tomatoes and other edibles. It’s inspiring and frustrating all at once since, unless you have your own garden, you’ll never see such diversity at the supermarket. I came back with the will to improve our...

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Our New Home Economics

...one size fits all approach. But buckets full of stuff you eat on a regular basis works for almost everyone. In my own case this crisis has highlighted food related practices in my life that are useful and those that aren’t. Bread making? Useful. Vegetable gardening? Wish I had one right now. Avocado tree? Thankful that it has fruit. Storage space for buckets? Need to get on that. In the next few posts I’ll look at what’s working in our household...

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A Better Garage Organizational System

...anges to the workshop I made in order to make it more useful for furniture making such as being sure that I could access my workbench from all sides, as well as improvements to the dust collection system. I can detail these changes in a future post but I’m more interested in showing that a well organized workshop can benefit any activity from sewing to gardening. Taking the time to plan a workspace makes work go much easier. Aesthetics are importa...

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A Not So Close Shave

...log and our books? How many times have I presented some neatly tied up homemaking*]}*/gardening tip when the actual results were more ambiguous? Or, to go deeper with this, how often have I presented a “failure” as a kind of false modesty? At the risk of doing the latter, and via a long winded media theory laden introduction, permit me update my ongoing struggle with shaving. Most folks don’t know that, long before the advent of social media deep in t...

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