Saturday Tweets: Naked Gardening Day Edition

May 2, 2015

...otsimple) April 29, 2015 Where can you find clay soil near your California adobe project? Check out this great soil map from UC Davis!: http://t.co/2L1ENJOn2a — adobeisnotsoftware (@riseupmud) April 26, 2015 Drought Frames Economic Divide of Californians http://t.co/ndTXBBUtsF — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 28, 2015 So, finally, we've got a thriving downtown with thousands of people on foot, and we're penalizing it? http://t.co/ZVNYFkYN...

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Summer Solstice Celebration at Holy Nativity

Mr. Homegrown

June 18, 2015

Events

Photo by Paul Morgan. Come see the new adobe community oven and celebrate the summer solstice! Here’s a note from Joanne of Environmental Change-makers: Want to learn about all the fun stuff that goes on at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity, and the Holy Nativity campus? This Saturday, June 20, there will be a Summer Solstice Open House across the entire campus. I will be speaking about saving water and greywater (three 15-minute talks, at 10...

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Bread Ovens of Quebec Free e-book

Mr. Homegrown

January 7, 2014

Appropriate Technology, Bread, Food, How-to, Resources, Water and Power

...incantations, and omens” associated with ovens. I’m really happy with the adobe oven we have in our backyard–it has produced many a tasty pizza and I look forward to having people over to give me an excuse to fire it up. Ovens, in Quebec households were associated with life itself and I understand why. If you’re interested in more information on DIY ovens, I’d recommend The Bread Ovens of Quebec along with Kiko Denzer’s Earth Ovens and Alan Scott...

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Drone Flyover of the Root Simple Compound

Mr. Homegrown

February 29, 2016

Gardening, Thoughtstylings

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...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SplvON5R_Nk Many thanks to Steve Rowell for dropping by last week with his drone and shooting our humble compound. I cobbled together a rough cut of some of the shots that show our house and the neighborhood. Look carefully and you’ll see our chicken coop, adobe oven, the small but growing new planting in our front yard and more. Plus those 100 foot Mexican Fan Palms!...

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The #FewerFeatures Movement

Mr. Homegrown

February 3, 2017

Design, Domesticus

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...at the hell is “Glass Xpress” or “Adaptive Wash” anyways? Via the power of Adobe Photoshop (itself a mirrored funhouse of features), I’ve redesigned the Whirlpool Quiet Partner III. Et, voila, #FewerFeatures: Here’s our complex and Eurotrashy, combo-washer/dryer: For the #FewerFeatures version, I’ve simplified the wash cycles to cold, warm and hot. I took out a few of the dryer’s options too (the dryer doesn’t work well anyways and we seldom use i...

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