Designing the World’s Most Pretentious Garden Shed

...risis I couldn’t help but admire the design. For ideas I thumbed through a coffee table book of 18th century French revolutionary architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s oddball sketches But fabricating a waterproof sphere from used headboards and pallets is beyond my carpentry abilities. Nevertheless, I came up with a few scribbles: Thankfully, most of my thoughtstylings stay in the sketchbook like the idea of a 20-foot tall observation chair on top of...

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What Does California’s Prop 64 Say About Home Marijuana Cultivation?

...The overwhelming majority were about growing marijuana. There were lavish coffee table books of bud porn, detailed encyclopedias edited by huge teams of experts and countless tomes covering the technical details indoor lights, fertilizers and growing mediums. Marijuana is the elephant in the gardening bedroom. I strongly suspect that the majority of money spent on fertilizers and gardening related products are for growing pot not petunias. This N...

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

...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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Root Simple at Nature Fest March 18 and 19

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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Nature Fest this Weekend!

...one in collaboration with the Ecology Center, on container gardening, rainwater harvesting, bicycle basics, backyard chickens and food preservation. They’ll be priced to fly out of those boxes in my garage! I’ll also be doing a coffee demo at 1pm on both Saturday and Sunday and dispensing free advice in the booth for the entirety of the festival. Please drop by and hang out. And dig the book racks I built out of scrap plywood! See you this weekend...

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