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

April 28, 2018

...e." https://t.co/YDoXLeEle7 — Streetsblog USA (@StreetsblogUSA) April 25, 2018 All we need to do to fix transit in this country is build exact replicas of these bus stops from my daughter’s Lego set pic.twitter.com/u4VbqqG91T — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) April 25, 2018 California's Trees Are Dying At A Catastrophic Rate https://t.co/yDizIMeYyu — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) April 23, 2018 How to deal with a mansplainer – four medieval way...

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Weekend Tweets: Strawberry Season, Air Plant Therapy and Trees Eating Things

Mr. Homegrown

May 7, 2016

Saturday Linkages

...twitter.com/E5KQLjMyW0 — Fairy Tale Gardens (@JennasFairyTale) May 4, 2016 Trees “eating” things https://t.co/gjgBwqMo54 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 4, 2016 Another beautiful post from our friend Shannon Hayes: Darned Life https://t.co/bTGQ69im0S via @SapBushShannon — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 3, 2016 Spectacular new jellyfish shows just how little we know about Earth’s oceans https://t.co/xc2FFEBKUJ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 3, 2016...

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Our new front yard, part 2: theory

Mrs. Homegrown

November 13, 2015

Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening

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...ear views so we could spot both dangers and opportunities easily–and handy trees to scramble into if we needed to get away from a predator. Whatever the reason, we like open spaces which are easily read and understood. This can take many forms, but we definitely have a preference for savannas, open meadows, and forests with pleasingly spaced upright trees but very little undergrowth. We don’t like landscapes which are dense or tangled or “wild” lo...

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Our new front yard, part 3: design

Mrs. Homegrown

November 17, 2015

Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening

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...showiest plants, and also the ones that persist no matter what the season, making them the bones of the garden. This includes trees and bushes, as well as large perennials. In a grassland landscape where there are no trees or bushes, this category would include tall grasses as well as plants with dramatic seed heads which persist long after the bloom. Filler plants: These are the transitory, often self-seeding plants which pop up opportunistically...

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Checking in on Kelly’s projects

Mrs. Homegrown

September 12, 2014

Miscellaneous

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...his very ambitious project has gone on hold until the crisis arises again. Making a mattress is intimidating, just because of the sheer cost and scale of the materials needed, and as far as I can tell, there’s no one out there to help you do it. If I ever do make a mattress, it will be like summiting the Everest of homesteading. On the other hand, if I ever learn how, I think I could make a mint teaching other desperate people how to do it themsel...

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