Saturday Tweets: Lyme Disease, Unuselessness and a Plum Mystery

May 5, 2018

10 Self-Propogating Herbs and Flowers That Take Over My Garden Every Spring https://t.co/CVYTSAomDL via @nwedible — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 5, 2018 The New Look for Gardeners Freaked out about Lyme Disease | Garden Rant https://t.co/234f22E1gD — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 5, 2018 The art of the unuseless: https://t.co/nTa3gH6iRW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 5, 2018 Great new resource–free online Sustainable Food Systems Sourcebook inc...

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Saturday Tweets: Tanning Fish, Trees and Dealing with Medieval Mansplainers

Mr. Homegrown

April 28, 2018

Saturday Linkages

What makes a designed plant community different? (And why does it matter?) Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, authors of Planting in a Post-Wild World, have the answers: https://t.co/gLmaXxkUj9 pic.twitter.com/eVfGX7RMdy — Timber Press (@timberpress) April 27, 2018 Here’s my PSA to everyone with cats & kids. The other night our cat ate one of these ubiquitous Nerf darts. The x-ray image shows how the tip got lodged at his duodenum, the entrance to t...

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Saturday Tweets: LA’s Grim Streets, Being the Change and More Medieval Marginalia

Mr. Homegrown

April 21, 2018

Saturday Linkages

At some point, Vision Zero has to become more than yet another PR campaign designed to make him look like he's ready to president: Garcetti backpedals, proposes more modest increase in VZ funding https://t.co/tAPLLYAQdD — sahra (@sahrasulaiman) April 20, 2018 A new documentary is out about Being the Change! Do all you can. 🙂 https://t.co/IlesTIsHNF — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) April 20, 2018 China escalates the war on jaywalkers with automa...

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Saturday Tweets: Touch Your Opuntia

Mr. Homegrown

April 14, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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Did you know? Stamens of many Opuntia flowers respond to touch. #plantsarecool #pokingthings #cacti pic.twitter.com/rIqJMmgV3B — Jennifer Possley (@JennPossley) April 10, 2018 Eat. Mor. Figs.@CaFigs @ValleyFig https://t.co/RaSOARO7T0 — Ernest Miller (@RLMProvisions) April 13, 2018 One of the reasons I love this herbal so much is that, in addition to the beautiful drawings (mugwort in this instance), there are intricate scenes in the background of...

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Saturday Tweets: Beet Raisins, Seed Libraries and a Pepperoni Disaster

Mr. Homegrown

April 7, 2018

Saturday Linkages

How to Make Beet Raisins https://t.co/ljNWtgweuZ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 7, 2018 Chester Cornett & His Roman Workbench https://t.co/hUMSlxELM0 via @rudemechanic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 7, 2018 You know, I really hate to keep beating a downed zuckerberg, but to the extent that expensive patents indicate corporate intent and direction — Come along for a ride, and let’s browse a few of Facebook’s recent U.S.P.T.O. patent applicat...

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