015 Worm Composting and Skunks

September 3, 2014

Bread, Composting, Food, Gardening, Pests, Podcasts, Vermiculture

...Pro (how I discovered that my skunk proofing did not work. Our skunk proof vegetable bed. Our late dog’s skunk hunting adventures. What are we reading Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof. Bread: A Global History By William Rubel. Kelly mentions Werner Herzog’s Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our...

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Frida Paints Luther

Mr. Homegrown

September 16, 2014

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Thoughtstylings

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...1930s. Kahlo liked to blur the boundaries between human consciousness, the vegetable and the animal. In her portrait of Burbank she touches on themes of life, death and transformation. You could write a book about what’s going on in this painting. Burbank’s work lives on inour backyards and orchards in the form of the fruit varieties he developed. I’ll view his Santa Rosa plum in our front yard differently after encountering Kahlo’s virtuosic pain...

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019 Garden Nerd Christy Wilhelmi

Mr. Homegrown

October 1, 2014

Gardening, Podcasts, Vegetable Gardening

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On the podcast this week we review different approaches to backyard vegetable gardening with “Gardenerd” Christy Wilhelmi of Gardenerd.com. Christy is also the author of Gardening for Geeks and has a podcast, The Gardenerds Tip of the Week. During the show we discuss: Biodynamics Biointensive/French Intensive Alan Chadwick’s Garden at UC Santa Cruz John Jeavons Double digging vs. no-till A documentary about Ruth Stout Breaking up soil with permac...

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California’s Drought and What To Do About It

Mr. Homegrown

February 6, 2014

Thoughtstylings, Water and Power

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...less water and encourage beneficial wildlife. I consider them part of the vegetable garden, in a way. I just made a major change to our laundry to landscape greywater system–more on this in another post. I’ve consulted historical irrigation data to more intelligently program our drip irrigation system. Keep in mind that 77% of California’s water use goes to agriculture (the media tends to forget this). Residential water use is a small part of the...

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Saturday Linkages: Garden Hoses, Planners and IKEA Hacks . . .

Mr. Homegrown

January 12, 2013

Saturday Linkages

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...//ow.ly/gJRrS Bad News Department Florida couple may have to give up their vegetable garden b/c of city ordinance http://ow.ly/gIg4C Looney Gas and Lead Poisoning: A Short, Sad History | Wired Science | http://Wired.com http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/looney-gas-and-lead-poisoning-a-short-sad-history/ … Aquaponic hacks Rooftop aquaponic system: http://www.ampsnola.com Indoor Micro Aquaponics System (IKEA-hack): http://www.instructables.c...

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