Weekend Tweets: Poppies, Insane Comics and Black Metal Cats

April 30, 2016

...Top L.A. Vegan Restaurant Owners Receiving Death Threats for Slaughtering Animals https://t.co/kJmVauMmwh via thr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 28, 2016 Highland Park Bowl is a stunning masterwork of Prohibition-era preservation https://t.co/DobuvSFzyF via @eaterla — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 27, 2016 No Knead Bread with Olives Recipe – GardenFork https://t.co/ibyIEKidc4 — Madkins (@Madkins2008) April 21, 2016 It would only take me an e...

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Saturday Tweets: Chicken vs. Corgi, Gluten and Supermarket Pasta

Mr. Homegrown

June 17, 2017

Saturday Linkages

...y https://t.co/LudkJFPfh4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 14, 2017 Pasta PSA: Please don't buy terrible supermarket fresh pasta. Here's why https://t.co/lDVfM6M0O8 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 14, 2017 The US has far more collisions with animals than Netherlands, maybe because we don't have a crossing structure every 200km like they do https://t.co/CjxVcjhSCu — Road Ecology Center (@roadecology) June 12, 2017 10 Unusual Uses for B...

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Leaf Litter

Mr. Homegrown

December 12, 2006

Permaculture

1 Comment

...al diversity in ecosystems. Structural diversity provides shelter for many animals for many purposes. In short, when it comes to fall leaf raking, just say no, be a slob and be proud of it. The mulch created by leaf litter serves multiple purposes. All those fallen leaves provide shelter for beneficial insects, reduce water usage by preventing evaporation, prevent weed growth, inhibit soil erosion and may even stop acid rain from penetrating soil....

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The Blue Bear

Mrs. Homegrown

September 9, 2016

Thoughtstylings

36 Comments

...ship with Blue Bear is an odd one. He was never one of my favorite stuffed animals, and yet I have kept him with me all these years, while the others have fallen by the wayside. He was never particularly soft or cuddly–though age has softened him, as it does all of us– and he did not meet my arcane childhood standards of cuteness. I had my favorites; he was not one of them. I never even gave him a proper name. But he formed the reliable back cente...

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The Great Beekeeping Debate

Mr. Homegrown

August 25, 2016

Animals, Bees

13 Comments

...aps. Just because a mite treatment is “natural,” such as dousing a hive in essential oils, does not mean that it’s healthy for the bees. We also must not lose sight of the fact that we are in a relationship with honeybees that goes back many thousands of years. They aren’t exactly wild animals in most places and may depend, to varying degrees, on our support. Someday we might reach a kind of sweet spot between highly interventionist and low interv...

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