Saturday Tweets: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

November 24, 2018

...Kleiman (@evankleiman) November 21, 2018 Guys, I have an idea. We should start calling vehicular cyclists alt-bicyclists — Angie Schmitt (@schmangee) November 21, 2018 Here's raw footage of the Barney balloon getting destroyed in the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade… pic.twitter.com/zTBZjoYXOj — Tanooki Joe (@TanookiKuribo) November 22, 2018 Very good agroecology thread here! https://t.co/j1jGfbPE8o — Fruit Cornucopia (@ValenzuelaJohn)...

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Picture Sunday: A Table Made From Election Signs

Mr. Homegrown

November 25, 2012

Picture Sundays

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...Now that the election is over it’s time to make some tables. Via the Homesteading/Survivalism Facebook page....

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2013 in Review Part II

Mr. Homegrown

December 31, 2013

Thoughtstylings

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...ds good health. Look for more blog posts on healthy food in 2014. We also participated in Stoic Week 2013. Stoicism is a philosophy that helps us deal with the ups and downs of life. And I got my Ham license–KK6HUF. December I harvest one big-ass squash out of the straw bale garden we planted in the spring. In the ongoing post-modern funhouse of mirrors that is the interwebs, reader Molly informs me that Home Depot put our straw bale garden on the...

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Scooters? Not a New Idea

Mr. Homegrown

July 1, 2019

Transportation

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...their larger wheels, are more stable than standing on a scooter. The 1916 article echos some of the contemporary paranoia about scooters. On that note, I’m happy to see anything that gets people out of cars which are the real, “Devil Wagons.” Let us remember that our auto addiction is responsible for 1.3 million deaths around the world every year. Here in Los Angeles, like many other cities, there is a “first mile/last mile” problem with using ou...

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Make Magazine: Online and Free

Mr. Homegrown

July 19, 2019

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening, Water and Power

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...co-founder Palmer Luckey’s interest in funding the company, and a GoFundMe page started for it.] I wrote an article on drip irrigation for Issue 18 and have to say that it was a pleasure to work with the Make editorial team. Unlike other publications I’ve written for, the editors at Make knew a lot about the technical details of the subject matter and worked hard to ensure accuracy. Speaking of technical details, the only thing I’d change if I wro...

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