Fabulous Postcards from HenCam

...discovered the joy of keeping smallstock, whether those be bees or hens or goats, our connection with animals comes right back, too. And of course, we love our dogs, whether we’re farmers or townfolk. That goes without saying! So we thought we’d give a shout out to Terry for her great books. They are heavy, 5″ x 7″ cards bound into books, but bound so that the postcards can be lifted out cleanly and used, in any order. They have a photo on the fro...

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Defining a Garden’s Purpose

...ush grass and maybe a pool. Some had vegetable gardens, a few chickens and goats. One enterprising person, somewhere between Bakersfield and Fresno, had a walled garden protecting lush marijuana plants. Other than the food gardeners (a small minority even in rural areas) there was little evidence that people ever went into their yards. It confirms what a UCLA anthropology team discovered when they placed cameras in 32 Los Angeles homes to see how...

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Failed Experiment: Bermuda Buttercup or Sour Grass (Oxalis pes-caprae) as Dye

...od beams are always in the fantasy) and a fire in the grate. I’d watch the goats graze in the back yard while I cheerfully sip tea and knit something marvelous out of hand spun angora dyed with Oxalis. (As opposed to the reality of me stumbling around our money pit of house in my exceedingly unnatural and ancient polar fleece robe, desperately searching for a chair to sit on that doesn’t hold a cat, so I can watch the LAPD stalking around the unoc...

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Saturday Linkages: Advent 3/4

...Scottish field is revealed at last How to watch the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Make a Christmas shadowbox A podcast about Arthur Machen’s weird vision of art Watch Peter Follansbee carve a shallow relief pattern From Instagram to Insistent Goats: Another Life After Social Media Case Study Slavoj Žižek on the “screen new deal” My wife just confessed that for her entire childhood she thought Colonel Sanders’ bow tie was his whole body and now...

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Saturday Tweets: Dogs, Land Use, Kale and Rocket Cats

...IVCOl — Jeannette Warnert (@jwarnert) August 3, 2018 #Breaking – About 100 goats are on the loose right now in a #Boise neighborhood. They are going house to house eating everything in sight. Nobody has a clue where they came from…updates to follow pic.twitter.com/K0ghUwQEfk — Joe Parris (@KTVBJoe) August 3, 2018 Fascinating look at how America uses its land https://t.co/H1eP86WWXq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 2, 2018 This project proves tha...

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