Saturday Tweets: Two Weeks of Tweets for the Price of One

December 10, 2016

...co/xmQtGVd1NC — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) December 6, 2016 Is Community Composting an Emerging Economic Opportunity? https://t.co/6FLmb8RiOr — UCUrbanAg (@UCUrbanAg) December 6, 2016 Grow Vegetables In Winter With A Mini Greenhouse – GardenFork https://t.co/enhfGpgaEz — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 6, 2016 If your city has streets and highways for cars, it has all the raw material it needs to operate without them https://t.co/XrFTqgGcDH —...

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Cybernetics: A Fatal Flaw

Mr. Homegrown

February 12, 2019

Thoughtstylings

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...out of the idealistic ecotopian movements of the 1970s was cybernetics not composting toilets. Counterintuitively, I think that instead of abandoning idealism and utopian thinking, we actually need to walk away from the dystopian stories we’ve been telling each other for so many post-Mad Max years and begin to tell utopian stories again, just different utopian stories than the last round. I’ll have to develop this idea further in future posts, but...

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Talk and Vermicomposting Workshop With Nance Klehm Sunday March 8th!

Mr. Homegrown

February 15, 2020

Events, Gardening, Permaculture, Vermiculture

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...s option! Stay after the talk for a short workshop taught by Nance on vermicomposting, that is, home composting using a worm bin. This is a fun and easy way to transform your kitchen scraps and waste paper into gold, even if you live in an apartment. Worm castings are a fantastic food for house plants as well as garden plants.You don’t need a strong back or much space to compost with a worm bin. Worm-shop participants will go home with a functioni...

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Weekend Linkages: A sign, some chickens and a strange real estate listing . . .

Mr. Homegrown

August 15, 2021

Saturday Linkages

...How the Happy Foot/Sad Foot sign got rescued Life under COVID in Florida Include These Items In Your Chicken First-Aid Kit ‘A literal return to the earth’: is human composting the greenest burial? End of the line for Uber? How the Pandemic Now Ends Strange real estate listing of the week...

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Stirred, Not Shaken

Mr. Homegrown

October 23, 2009

Biodynamics, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...ic farming. Biodynamic agriculture combines common sense practices such as composting with strange esoteric rituals. The oddest aspect of biodynamics involves the “preparations”, a specific set of substances made of manure, silica and herbs that are buried in cow horns, bladders and skulls. After a few months they are unearthed, ritually stirred and applied to soil and compost piles. Steiner has the biodynamic farmer spray these preparations on so...

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