Saturday Tweets: Bike Rants, Super Monster Wolf and Marginalia

March 10, 2018

...enForkTV) March 4, 2018 BBC News – ‘Super Monster Wolf’ a success in Japan farming trials https://t.co/QjOF7Wkwj7 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 8, 2018 Why Manhattan Beach is forcing this beekeeper — and her hives — out of town https://t.co/dS8Amp7E6p — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 7, 2018 Of Mice and Men [Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights] pic.twitter.com/nFHhZhoqu3 — Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) March 5, 2018 The Beast of the Ap...

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Baker Creek Invites and Un-invites Cliven Bundy to Speak

Mr. Homegrown

May 1, 2019

Gardening

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...had the budget to keep threatened protestors at a distance. It’s not the first time I’ve witnessed some haphazard curatorial decisions on a Baker Creek event roster. Speakers at their Santa Rosa Heirloom festival, in past years, included many well known experts in gardening and farming but also pseudoscientists such as “Food Babe” Vani Deva Hari and Joseph Mercola. This week’s Bundy kerfuffle leaves me scratching my head about Baker Creek’s ideolo...

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Day to day, our decisions count

Mrs. Homegrown

April 30, 2015

Back to the Garden

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...s to agriculture. So, when we’re wasting food at this rate, that means that 25% of our fresh water is going directly to waste. Here in the dry West, that kind of extravagance has become unconscionable. In terms of soil, think about this. To grow all the food we waste globally, we use an area of land one and half times larger than the U.S. That’s a lot of soil. And most of that’s soil which is being stripped of its wealth by unsustainable farming p...

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Saturday Tweets: How about we all make some beer vinegar in a thatched dome?

Mr. Homegrown

February 27, 2016

Saturday Linkages

...s://t.co/256TNWtvjs — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 25, 2016 Make Sliding Barn Doors Using Skateboard Wheels https://t.co/lq9fnzZKwO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 25, 2016 Enough with the vertical farming https://t.co/Mq1nzrpuj8 — lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) February 20, 2016...

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Saturday Tweets: K-Cups, Kittens and Smartphone Microscopes

Mr. Homegrown

March 21, 2015

Saturday Linkages

...KJlSkioYz via @TakePart — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 20, 2015 Factory Farming: Was the World Created for Me? http://t.co/5vgfY983QV via @HuffPostRelig — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 19, 2015 Big Ag kills backyard chicken ordinance in Augusta: http://t.co/zdbsUdbFCi via @DailyProgress — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 18, 2015 Depaving Cities, Undamming Rivers—Here’s How We’re Undoing the Damage http://t.co/j0dYhsvYoL #TogetherWithEarth pic...

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