Midnight in the Desert

October 25, 2018

...ton. Among the features of the hole: the power to restore life to deceased animals, birth mysterious seal creatures from within the carcass of lambs and produce impossible objects such as 1943 Roosevelt dimes. During a commercial break on Water’s first appearance on Coast to Coast, listeners started searching the area around Ellensberg on an early internet satellite service called Terraserver. Mysteriously, Water’s property seemed to have been bla...

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Saturday Tweets: Hello 2019

Mr. Homegrown

January 5, 2019

Saturday Linkages

....twitter.com/SfWJ4E4m7q — Laura Goodfellow 🚌🏃🏼‍♀️ (@transitrunner) January 2, 2019 #UCDavis‘ @JamieLPeyton continues success with innovation burn care for animals. https://t.co/0vGIzPC3V3 — UC Davis Vet Med (@ucdavisvetmed) January 2, 2019...

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The Unintended Consequences of Water Conservation

Mr. Homegrown

September 9, 2015

Gardening

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...access TV show. Who cares if you pull the water? Never mind that insects, animals and people call those landscapes home. Two ways out of this: a focus on long term solutions in our civic discourse and instilling a love of plants (we could call it horticultural literacy) in the next generation. Both are tall orders. In the meantime, I recommend reading Hodel and Pittenger’s paper. They are, perhaps, more enamored of the lawn than I but their call...

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Behold the Ant Lion

Mrs. Homegrown

November 20, 2014

Animals, Insects, Nature Awareness

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...Tracking Team (if you live near Ventura, CA and want to learn how to track animals for fun, look them up). We were under a tagged-up bridge, in a dry river bed. Someone pointed out a hole or divot in the sand and quizzed us: what made the hole? I had no idea. It was a divot that could have been made by a big man’s thumb. I might think it was made by dripping water, if there was ever any water anywhere in this dry land. The answer was “ant lion” —...

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Saturday Tweets: Pierces Diesease and Electric Squirrels

Mr. Homegrown

January 16, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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...CCE advisors. https://t.co/2HagcxOvON pic.twitter.com/1URJYOiGh2 — Ag&Natural Resources (@ucanr) January 11, 2016 Helping the Homeless on a Budget https://t.co/7IW7aQfsgE — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 12, 2016 Map of power outages caused by small animals: https://t.co/01ZpKsIZ2k — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 12, 2016 The pocket grill https://t.co/42Pej9zQlT — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 12, 2016 The Real Problem With Lunch, via @...

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