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Saturday Tweets: K-Cups, Kittens and Smartphone Microscopes

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...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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Paleo Grift

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Thoughtstylings
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...ontains a kind of racism that assumes that this way of living is easy, that it doesn’t involve skill or, as in the case of California native peoples what looks to westerners like hunting and gathering is actually a form of agriculture, just not a form that looks like European farming (See Kat Anderson’s Tending the Wild for more on that thesis). I guess it’s not surprising that our tech bros executives would embrace short work weeks and fictitious...

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Saturday Tweets: Trade Your House For an Entire Medieval Italian Village

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...e (@rootsimple) April 6, 2015 Six ways local officials can encourage urban farming: http://t.co/ysRVP84REp — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 11, 2015 Cover Crops Have Got It Covered Part IV: Planting and Managing Cover Crops in Vegetable Gardens http://t.co/a1nF2Xg3SD #aaatopblogs #feedly — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 11, 2015 Bicycle Powered Chili Roaster http://t.co/c2wgqEeOTs via @Natural Building Blog — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 11,...

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Day to day, our decisions count

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Back to the Garden
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...most of that’s soil which is being stripped of its wealth by unsustainable farming practices. So yeah…uggh. There’s no need to beat this with a hammer. What can we do at home? What kind of personal disciplines can we take on to stop wasting food? I don’t have all the answers! I’m hoping you all will have some suggestions. Here’s a few things I can offer: Avoid eating out, especially at places where you know the food isn’t sourced well, and the por...

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