Picture Sundays: Cigarette Card Trellis Advice
Via Deirdre’s Garden Diary and Homesteading, a Wills Cigarette Card from 1923. A little gardening advice with your cancer sticks....
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Picture Sundays: Easy Ridin’ Bees
To see how “backwards” beekeeper Danny rescued this swarm see his blog Bees and Beyond....
Picture Sundays: Make This Squirrel Lamp!
Tired of them in your fruit trees? Via Modern Mechanix...
Picture Sundays: Grape Nuts
No wonder I have steady nerves and a keen, clear brain....
Picture Sundays: Mountain of Squash
This mountain of heirloom squash was the centerpiece of the National Heirloom Exposition that took place in Sonoma in September of last year. Next year’s Exposition will be taking place on September 10, 11, and 12 at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. The past two years have featured an amazing roster of speakers and exhibitors all for a very low admission charge. It’s well worth traveling a long distance to attend this unique event. If...
Picture Sundays: Feral Chard
A two year old Swiss chard plant that never gets any water. It’s growing in a bed I’m not using right now. It’s huge, insect free, and growing better than the vegetables I pay attention to....
Picture Sundays: The Vigo County Canning Club
Vigo County Canning Club, Indiana 1918. Via Kaufmann Mercantile. I hope we’ll be seeing more food preservation clubs in the years to come. They make a lot of sense. You can pool resources, labor and expertise. No need to be nostalgic, this is an idea for the present and future....
Picture Sundays: Cactus Candy Box
There should be a rule that if you have a cool old package design you should have to keep it. Thank you Cactus Candy Company for not hiring a new graphic designer....
Picture Sundays: Kangaroo Butlers
A prediction from 1965: kangaroo butlers. A prescient, peak oil aware alternative to those robots we were supposed to have by now? Via Paleofuture....
Picture Sundays: Staying Cool on the 4th
From HaFoSaFo.com, a Chevy S10 mobile swimming pool on the 4th of July in Los Angeles. Hope you are all staying as cool as these folks....