A Report from the 2014 Heirloom Expo in Santa Rosa

September 15, 2014

...had a great time, as usual. I’ve attended every year since its inception in 2010. The Expo features mind boggling displays of what can only be called vegetable porn. Hint: if you hang around after the conclusion on Thursday evening you can score the display items. For two years in a row we’ve gone home with a rental car stuffed with heirloom watermelon and squash. But the real draw for me are the seminars and panel discussions. Above, some of the...

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Weekend Tweets: Poppies, Insane Comics and Black Metal Cats

Mr. Homegrown

April 30, 2016

Saturday Linkages

...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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The Flow Hive: a Solution in Search of a Problem

Mr. Homegrown

February 23, 2015

Animals, Bees

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...s going the bees in the hive get very defensive and stinging of people and animals nearby can result. Other photos on the site show the harvest tubes connected to lidded jars, which would be a lot safer. But I don’t think lidded harvest systems are included in the price of the set up. Speaking of the price: It’s $460 for just the contraption or $600 for a brood box and the Flow™ Hive. I can buy two unassembled Lanstroth boxes with frames for aroun...

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Midnight in the Desert

Mr. Homegrown

October 25, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...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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Is Industrial Ag to Blame for the Swine Flu?

Mr. Homegrown

April 27, 2009

Thoughtstylings

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...int we’re in the wild speculation phase of the swine flu narrative and I’ll add that the press does a particularly bad job with anything that has to do with science. However, we’ve been trying to make the point that distributed agriculture, more people tending small numbers of animals, is most likely a safer practice than large factory farms. The exotic strains of E-coli and swine flu that have emerged in recent years could be the unintended conse...

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