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Make a Garden Work Table from a Pallet

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Design
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...would work better if you must take one apart. For the table above we simply cut the pallet in half with a circular saw and handsaw. 2. Use screws not nails and predrill all holes. Pallet wood is very brittle and splits easily. For some other design ideas check out: This nice coffee table. Note that you simply use the whole pallet. And this cool idea: an art/architecture collective Municipal Workshop has a nice way of avoiding the problem of pulli...

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A Tensegrity Table

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...tegrity”, though Fuller probably did not invent the concept. Having seen a coffee table that used a tensegrity as a base, I decided to see if I could make a similar table, only out of scavenged materials (scavenging seems appropriate in these crummy economic times!). To make your own tensegrity table, molecular biomechanics professor Dr. William H. Guilford has some very nice step-by-step instructions here. My version is slightly different, but fr...

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Compost Outlaws

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Composting, Thoughtstylings
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...ial not generated at your own residence. So when you take back that bag of coffee grounds from Starbucks to put in your compost pile you’re an outlaw. It’s a law that benefits the status quo, where the the city and private contractors haul away all that perfectly good organic matter that could be nourishing our neighborhood gardens, parks, and street trees and stuff it in . . . the dump. There’s a dirty little secret with what happens to the organ...

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A Tour of the Homegrown Evolution Compound

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...everybody else–there’s no room for a wheat field after all, nor do we grow coffee or a host of other necessary staples. But, we seldom buy greens at the store, and almost never buy herbs or eggs–we’ve got that taken care of in the garden. In the summer we have lots of tomatoes, and right now we have a few avocados. When the fruit trees mature in a few years we’ll have fruit. We’re hippies. Don’t get us wrong, we love hippies. We have no problems w...

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A garden that looks like a meth amphetamine lab

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Self Watering Containers
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...eautiful. There’s simply too much of what we call “garden porn” out there. Coffee table garden books, Martha Stewart and 24 hours of bullshit home improvement shows set up expectations that drive us all to useless spending at nurseries and home improvement stores all in pursuit of unattainable ideals, at least unattainable for anyone not employing slave labor. Forget about creating a mini Versailles–it’s time to get down to business and grow stuff...

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