Two Podcasts You’ve Got to Hear: Thinking Trees and Rewilding

August 3, 2016

...at was reclaimed from the sea in the 1960s. I’m very familiar with this place from a bizarre, failed project I was involved with that attempted to create a monumental land art piece with explosives. Someday I’ll tell that crazy story, but let’s just say that this part of the Netherlands is probably the most dull landscape in the world. The Ideas show begins with the story of Ecologist Frans Vera introducing wild animals to this very artificial pla...

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Mosaic Artist Jeffrey Bale

Mr. Homegrown

February 22, 2016

Design, Garden Design, Gardening

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...s and work. Bale captures what I think is missing in a lot of contemporary art and landscape design, a sense of the transcendent and the search for what philosopher Charles Taylor calls “fullness”. Our gardens and cities could benefit from many more spaces like the labyrinth portrayed in this short mini-doc. Best of all, in the video, Bale demonstrates how he makes his mosaics. Bale has no trade secrets. He wants us all to participate in creating...

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How to polish your silver effortlessly–with Science!

Mrs. Homegrown

February 1, 2016

Cleaning, Domesticus, How-to

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...y’re so perfect it’s clear they’ve never been used. These may have been a part of my grandmother’s wedding trousseau, or maybe even my great-grandmother’s. But whoever gathered them together so carefully, they never thought any dinner party in their entire life was special enough to use them. Well, this attitude ends with me. Erik and I don’t have kids, and we’ve hit middle age, so I’m burning the bridges behind us. Everything must be used. No mor...

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Romanesco broccoli cameo lights up Star Wars film

Mrs. Homegrown

December 30, 2015

Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening

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...h food, so it’s interesting that the film makers decided to include it as part of the scenery. The only other edible in the movie is special effect-based alien food–I won’t be spoilery and say any more about that. The Star Wars world isn’t posited as our future world, as the Star Trek world is–it’s a mythic world, somewhere long ago and far away. I doubt we’d ever see Han Solo noshing on a hot dog, for instance, whereas I can totally imagine Kirk...

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Saturday Tweets: Too Many Links

Mr. Homegrown

April 20, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...e, and the Fine Art Market by Kenzy El-Mohandes ” https://t.co/NhheC5BZH6 #artmarket #visualart #AndyWarholpredictedthis — Deanne Achong (@deanneachong) April 12, 2019 Climate Chaos Is Coming — and the Pinkertons Are Ready https://t.co/fEUC840cTL — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 12, 2019 The most dangerous thing in this world is a Puritan who’s broadening his mind. He’s just like a barbarian who’s broadening his empire. More & more things do, ind...

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