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108 Artist/Maker Federico Tobon

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Animals, Cats, Design, Podcasts, Preparedness, Tools
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...and chisel. Scary kickback video. Budget bandsaw repair. DIY belt sander. Making your own bandsaw. Sewing a big bag for bees. Cool Tools knot tying card. Clicker Training for Cats by Karen Pryer. You can follow Federico’s work at WolfcatWorkshop and he’s @wolfcatworkshop on Instagram. Make sure to sign up for his newsletter. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail...

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We Grew a Cocktail Avocado!

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Fruit Trees, Gardening
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...ng varieties of two kinds. The “A” type is female in the morning of the first day and male in the afternoon of the second day (when the weather is warm). The “B” type is just the reverse: its flowers are female in the afternoon and male the following morning. The fact that we have two hives of honeybees in our backyard and lots of other avocado trees in the neighborhood means that we don’t get a lot of cocktail avocados. I could not find any infor...

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Fabulous Postcards from HenCam

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Animals, Reviews
...collection, but it seems kitties were a little too sly for early cameras, making good pictures (as opposed to cat-shaped blurs) hard to find.) She tells us she spent two years collecting pictures for these collections, searching everywhere, from flea markets to eBay, parsing through thousands of photos. Her favorites are collected in books of 30. She picked good ones. Every card tells the story, and most of them leave me with questions, too. Also...

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Help! I’ve got Paper Wasps

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Animals, Insects
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...ddies, for many hours and have never once been bothered. Biology Like honeybees, paper wasp are social insects. A mated queen lays eggs. But the similarity ends there. Paper wasp nests range in size between a dozen to 200 individuals. A honeybee colony can be made up of 60,000 workers or more. And honeybees only gather pollen and nectar. Paper wasps feed their young with protein (other insects). What a paper wasp sting feels like About the only wa...

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Saturday Tweets: Parsley Poodle Sandwich

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Saturday Linkages
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...#nomowlawn #wildflowers #wildlife #pollinators #naturelover #Butterflies #bees #insects @JoSmithDWT @LincsWildlife @GWandShows pic.twitter.com/hQAoqRP157 — Hodds (@Hodds16) July 12, 2019 An illustrated guide to San Francisco’s most unusual statues https://t.co/8MDocfwcYv — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 13, 2019 How to: run a small social network for you and your friends. https://t.co/QnkY6yEREr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 13, 2019 Watch Net...

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