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Squirrel-Proof Bird Feeder

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Animals
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Bird feeder in the LA Natural History Museum garden. One of a series of posts inspired by our recent tour of the new gardens at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. The Nature Gardens at the NHM are not large by the usual standards of botanical gardens, and they are only about a year old, but they are already rich with bird and insect life. (A poorwill even visited, which apparently caused quite a bit of excitement in the birding community.) T...

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Your Beekeeping Questions Answered

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Animals, Bees
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...s an easy answer. Google your question with “Michael Bush.” Michael Bush maintains an encyclopedic website devoted to all-natural treatment-free beekeeping at www.bushfarms.com. And the folks at HoneyLove have shot a series of videos with Bush. Bush’s advice is well outside mainstream beekeeping. Given the spectacular failures of the big beekeepers in recent years, I think it’s time well past time to look at alternatives....

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Saturday Linkages: A Difficult Week

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Saturday Linkages
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...ting the Art of the Book in the Industrial North West (museum exhibit in a series of blog posts) Mystery as 60 peculiar cubes with inscriptions pulled from Coventry river Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels? The Complete Guide to Creating Your Personal Makerspace (Via Eric of Garden Fork) Infectious Bronchitis In Chickens: Another Coronavirus My friend found a listing for an otherwise normal mcmansion that seemingly has a little…. fake…...

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Worm Composting Demo at Summer Nights in the Garden

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Events
...Join Root Simple for a worm composting demo at the Natural History Museum’s Summer Nights in the Garden series this Friday August 28. We’re showing how to set up your own vermicomposting system and raffling off a worm bin. Plus it’s the debut of the new WormCam! Grab a cocktail and join us and KCRW DJ, Anthony Valadez. The garden is one of the best in California and the event is freeeeeeeeee. More info here....

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Saturday Tweets: Rocket Stoves, Cheese Museums and a Round Earth

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Saturday Linkages
...— Taras Grescoe (@grescoe) May 25, 2018 Get started. From a daily drawing series. I begin the day drawing my phone and apps – instead of being sucked into its vortex. #draweveryday pic.twitter.com/branmPHQqC — Deanne Achong (@deanneachong) May 26, 2018 Shaping the shape of wood: https://t.co/Gdo8z1TlOy via @wordpressdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 24, 2018 In the land of giants: https://t.co/LKSG5JRpBf — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 22, 2...

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