I Ate 100 Power Bars

March 12, 2018

...n. Patagonia is selling food. Crossfit bros love butter and coconut filled coffee and flavored beef jerky. Bicycles are being used as a symbol of hipness in convention booth displays. “Regenerative agriculture” has been appropriated as the latest buzz-phrase by large food companies. Every natural food product is labeled either “pro-biotic” or “pre-biotic.” If one could distill all those booths down to one item you’d end up with a pro-biotic turmer...

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Saturday Tweets: Passover/Holy Saturday Edition

Mr. Homegrown

March 31, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...n) https://t.co/ICOjnBmWNw — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2018 Good urbanism. Kamakura, Japan. Continually inhabited since 8000 B.C. pic.twitter.com/bokyhj8wY3 — Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) March 31, 2018 The best climbers for shade | Alys Fowler https://t.co/mSGg4x4zCD pic.twitter.com/37z1Qx4zDW — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) March 31, 2018 Virginia opossums are the only marsupials native to North America. Just like the offspring...

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Root Simple at Nature Fest March 18 and 19

Mr. Homegrown

March 6, 2017

Events

Hey Angelinos, Root Simple will be doing a coffee roasting demo at 1:00 pm at the Natural History Museum’s Nature Fest on March 18 and 19. We also have a booth and you’re welcome to come hang out during the event. I’ll be selling some of our lesser known publications at a steep discount as well as answering random homesteading questions. We’d love to meet you in person! The Natural History Museum is one of my favorite places in LA. The event will...

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Spam Poetry Sunday

Mrs. Homegrown

June 26, 2016

Picture Sundays

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...r ago, we would have been kept from the nonessential measures we wer selecting. Thank you very much. What mystifies us is the ultimate purpose of these spam comments. This one was placed on our announcement for our upcoming coffee roasting class (not a popular or highly linked post), and linked to a page for a restaurant which is obviously just a place holder, in that it has no content or history or graphic design. And who the heck is Janet?...

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Saturday Tweets: Subterranean Heating Systems, Achocha, Tree Beekeeping and Valentine’s Day Cocktails

Mr. Homegrown

February 11, 2017

Saturday Linkages

...11, 2017 Raspberry Frappe, 1970 –Vintage Cocktail Friday https://t.co/jeodIFxf47 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 6 Flowers to Grow in the Vegetable Garden https://t.co/wcRz7RcI4g — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 A Coffee Renaissance Is Brewing, and It’s All Thanks to Genetics https://t.co/kPIhPeKBpP via @WIRED — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 4, 2017 The False Preacher [Morgan, MS M.892.3] pic.twitter.com/Jt0prZRfCR...

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