Saturday Tweets: Georgia O’Keefe, Rampaging Peacocks and Mango Mania

July 1, 2017

...sm’s favorite recipes https://t.co/R8GLfSxpg4 @guardian @robertegger: — UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) July 1, 2017 House sparrows: They might be cute little songbirds, but they're also opportunistic chicken-feed thieves who can… https://t.co/AaCwaoCN1M — Hobby Farms (@hobbyfarms) July 1, 2017 Mango mania hits the capital at 29th annual International Mango Festival featuring 500 varieties, Delhi, India https://t.co/YrRBbjASzv pic.twitter.c...

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Saturday Tweets: The Weather, Moletakers and More Cats

Mr. Homegrown

September 23, 2017

Saturday Linkages

...k. #DeathToFalseTruffleOil https://t.co/W0McFqq78f — Josh Lurie-Food GPS (@foodgps) September 16, 2017 If you are driving at night, stop your car, turn off the ignition, and throw your keys into a sewer. https://t.co/qZ41i15RPH — Bicycle Lobby (@BicycleLobby) September 23, 2017 Plastic bollards should be regarded as temporary bandaids waiting for a more permanent design to be funded. https://t.co/uHb9yZ2Aho — Jim Charlier (@TheCharlier) September...

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2014: The Year in Review

Mr. Homegrown

December 29, 2014

Thoughtstylings

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...most revelatory class for me was Pascal and Mia proving that you can find food in hottest and driest month of the year during a apocalyptic drought. There’s a lot of people who forage, but fewer who know what to do with the wild foods they gather. Pascal and Mia are working on a book that I predict will be the foraging book. September Stoicism Today In a very unlikely turn of events, an essay we wrote was included in a book on stoicism. I tried n...

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Summer Solstice Celebration at Holy Nativity

Mr. Homegrown

June 18, 2015

Events

...ire campus. I will be speaking about saving water and greywater (three 15-minute talks, at 10, 11, 12) The open house will feature garden tours, oven explanation (the oven mud is now drying), highlights from other campus organizations like Teri Roseman’s LiveYoga Wellness, Patricia Rose’s Fresh-food-in-a-flash cooking classes, the Food Forward gleaning program, art tours by Steve O’Laughlin, and much more. Steve’s band will be performing 12-1, and...

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Free Online Gardening Lectures from the University of California

Mr. Homegrown

October 13, 2014

Gardening

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...watch?v=LcB10xujAIU I just got back from a combined Master Gardener/Master Food Preserver conference put on by the University of California Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (I became a Master Food Preserver back in 2012 thanks to a truly awesome training program put on by our local Extension Service and taught by Ernest Miller, a guest on episode 14 of our podcast). I’ll share some of what I learned at the conference in the coming w...

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