Reforming City Codes

...Change the outdated codes that were enacted as a response to someone’s suburban utopian nightmare of manicured lawns and gumdrop shrubs! This is probably what will come of the Florida case. My City recently tried to legalize backyard chickens, someone started an anti-chicken campaign and the City Council lost it’s nerve and voted the amendment down………….Sometimes you just can’t win…….. DRBREW makes a good point. The City of Los Angeles just starte...

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Front Yard Vegetable Gardeners Fights Back

...ulous grilling from a code enforcement official. It’s absurd when city codes single out “vegetables.” Broadleaf plantain is a vegetable and anyone who has a lawn is probably growing it. Many flowers such as calendula are edible. Broccoli is a flower. I could go on. Let’s just say that we wish Ricketts luck with her lawsuit against Miami Shores....

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Radical Apiculturalist Michael Thiele

...l the symbiotic and parasitic relationships bees have with microorganisms, flowers, honey, gravity–even wax moth larvae and mites. When we take a whole systems approach, Thiele suggests, we’re more likely to admit our ignorance and approach the hive with humility. Thiele’s description of the bien reminded me of Martin Buber’s I-Thou as opposed to I-It relationship, i.e. subject to subject rather than subject to object. In fact, several hundreds of...

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Bidens rebuttal

...it was–so I let it be. Eventually it developed small unspectacular yellow flowers. In my mind it was a pretty-ish weed, unidentified, but fairly harmless. I kept meaning to look it up, and at the same time, I pondered pulling it because it was competing for water with my more officially invited garden plants. (Since then I’ve learned that it might give off competitive chemicals, so probably isn’t the best companion to plants I actually want to ke...

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Weekend Linkages: All Play and No Work

...Drawing by finish architect Uno Ullberg, 1903. Bicycle powered car All Work and No Play Google Maps Provided Users With a ‘Potentially Fatal’ Hiking Trail on This Mountain Historic “Garden City” is Surprisingly Anti-Gardening Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist Weird fractal Romanesco cauliflowers start life as failed flowers...

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