Matching Your Waste Stream to Your Composting Method

...all the stuff that can’t go either in the worm bin or the big compost pile. Disadvantages: produces a low quality compost. Alternatives The labor involved in building a big compost pile for a conventional vegetable garden speaks to the advantages of what I think of as alternative permaculture food crops. In our climate that’s things like prickly pear cactus, pomegranates, certain types of grapes, olives and California natives (many of which are ed...

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Saturday Linkages: Holiday Edition

...y-a-cas.html … Avoid Antibacterial Soaps, Say Consumer Advocates http://on.natgeo.com/18Pptyh Arizona Food and Farm Finance Forum 2014 http://garynabhan.com/i/archives/2366 Practical Permaculture – Planting Under Fruit Trees http://wp.me/p2Lm7J-wK For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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Saturday Tweets: The Short Holiday Version

...Creating a food forest, step by step https://t.co/EbNzbzioiT pic.twitter.com/w4udZAFpbD — Permaculture (@PermacultuRRe) December 17, 2015 Car free living in LA: https://t.co/BqIysFjovk — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 17, 2015 New winterizing the beehives #beekeeping vids on https://t.co/1y6V4k5kYj pic.twitter.com/C5wuxtE1OD — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) December 3, 2015...

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Saturday Tweets: Weeds, Bees and General Crankiness

Weed Life #permaculture #gardening #weeds #savetheweeds #soilhealth #dandelions #weedshavefeelingstoo pic.twitter.com/xsAz2Ktjs1 — Rascality Now (@rascalitynow) May 30, 2018 Count your bees with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning https://t.co/1tjD8uCaYb — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 1, 2018 The Silence of the Bugs https://t.co/rdRKfse7JW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 27, 2018 “America was just wiped out.” @nicolatwilley reports from the “Cl...

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Rain: A Journal of Appropriate Technology

...by E. F. Schumacher, as well as covering such topics as energy efficiency, permaculture and alternative schools. One topic I’d never thought much about, the destructive influence of tourism, seemed to be the special concern of co-editor Tom Bender. Here’s an especially eloquent passage by Bender from the May 1976 issue: Drinking wine one recent evening with Florian Winter, an Austrian visiting us on a global survey of renewable energy developments...

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