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Butter Making Demo at the Natural History Museum

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Events
Join us for what I promise will be the Burning Man of butter making this Friday evening at the Natural History Museum. We’ll be doing a hands-on shake your own butter demo with live drummers. Best of all it’s freeeeeeeeeeeee, but you need to RSVP. And there’s more: MUSIC with COASTIN (5-7 pm) and Evan Weiss from Junk (7-9pm) BUTTER MAKING with authors, Erik Knutzen & Kelly Coyne (*timed-ticket required) POTTING SUCCULENTS (*timed-ticket required)...

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Making It Available in Overdrive App

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Publications
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...ecreational library visit, my favorite librarian informed me that our book Making It is available for download in the Overdrive app. Ego boosted! Many public libraries, in addition to books, now have a long list of digital gewgaws, apps and resources. One of those apps is Overdrive, which allows you to download eBooks, videos and audio books to your digital devices for free. Over 30,000 libraries worldwide use Overdrive to distribute materials. To...

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Tree Bondage

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Events, Gardening
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...irewood!) Be prepared to be shocked as well as educated. You will: See how trees can be mismanaged Learn how to “repair” damaged trees Learn how to avoid the hurtful aspects of the damaged trees shown See examples of the correct way to plant, irrigate, compost, fertilize, mulch and prune trees Where: The Seed Bank, 199 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, CA 94952 When: Thursday June 2nd, 6:30PM Phone: (707) 773-1336 Robert Kourik, Metamorphic Press PO Box...

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Saturday Tweets: Peppercorns, Fig Trees and Your Inner Cleveland

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Why Bury Fig Trees? A Curious Tradition Preserves A Taste Of Italy http://t.co/wmFQIZBmoh — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 27, 2014 A Tablet for Africa? http://t.co/vsCls4QyTe — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 27, 2014 Flooded Crypt of San Francesco: Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water http://t.co/CJPiv46xpq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 27, 2014 The “Inner Cleveland” of Trendy Cities http://t.co/HNrH9pmlEW...

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Extreme Measures: Squirrel Proofing Your Fruit Trees

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Fruit Trees, Gardening, Pests
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...ia Commons. I think there’s a way to make aesthetically pleasing fruit tree cages. Crazy idea: what if they were as carefully crafted as Robert Irwin’s running fence piece at UC San Diego? It’s too late to fence the trees in our own garden, but I think if I were planning a new garden I might try to find a way to make those fruit tree cages look like 70s era land art. How do you deal with the squirrel/fruit tree menace?...

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