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Building a Makeshift Treadmill Desk

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Fitness
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...m since 2002. I’ve written for Culinate.com, Ethicurean.com and have a cookbook review column at Bookslut.com. I’ve been published in the Best Food Writing of 2010, and am currently working on a book proposal for a nonfiction book about finding and building a home saw me through and got me past some devastating personal losses. Here’s Livingsmallblog.com’s first treadmill desk post. And an update here. Thanks Christine! If you have a project you’d...

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What To Do With Old Vegetable Seeds

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Gardening, Permaculture, Vegetable Gardening
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...ng in a shoe box. And I’ve been reading a newly published translation of a book by the late, “natural farmer” Masanobu Fukuoka (review coming soon). Fukuoka inspired me to distribute those old seeds around our micro-orchard to see what comes up. Fukuoka has some tips in his book The Natural Way of Farming for creating a semi-wild vegetable garden: Include nitrogen fixers (in my case some clover seeds) Use daikon and other radishes to break up hard...

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Saturday Tweets: Labor Day Weekend Edition

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...Tub https://t.co/JqTlCil58F — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 1, 2016 Books Into Stool https://t.co/Aby04AzOqH — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 1, 2016 Technology Alone Won’t Make You Better at What You Do: https://t.co/6CWezHj4Gn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 1, 2016 National Park Visitors Who Complain About Wi-Fi Should Be Thrown Into Old Faithful https://t.co/ubppSqCKiP — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 1, 2016 Scientist r...

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Running Shoes: the worst idea ever

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Fitness
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...not be a stiff arch support that prevents the natural movement of the arch of the foot. And here’s a thought for an enterprising publisher: how about a running magazine modeled after Lucky Peach? In other words, a running magazine with integrity made up of honest reviews, research-based injury advice and thoughtful essays. Resources: An interesting article on Plantar fasciitis (thanks to Kathy Turk for the link) The Skeletal Biology Lab at Harvard...

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