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Let’s Talk About the Holidays

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Thoughtstylings
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...s season in the US presents challenges to folks who are on the radical homemaking path. One action that’s helped around our household was to cut off commercial television, something we did many years ago. A number of people mentioned that they really enjoyed hearing Shannon Hayes on our podcast talking about how her family celebrates the holidays. She has also written a blog post on the subject, “Murdering Santa and Other Tips for Enjoying the Hol...

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The Virtues of Gerard’s Herbal

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Food, Foraging
...rnets, Archive.org, hosts a copy of John Gerard’s 16th century bestselling foraging manual, The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes. I’ve embeddified it as an alternative to spending an evening staring at the Netflix browse menu or as an opportunity for workplace dinkering. Here’s how the University of Virginia describes it, Gerard was superintendent of the gardens of William Cecil, advisor to Queen Elizabeth. Gerard was one of the most resp...

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Weekend Linkages: AI Mushroom Books, Sandwiches and Mystery Totem Poles

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Saturday Linkages
...‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled Tennessee woman sets record for world’s longest female mullet Mystery totem pole appears on coastal path in south-east England Sandwiches of Histsory...

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Top Six California Native Plant Performers

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Gardening
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...nse and both honeybees and native bees love it. There’s a lot of unethical foraging going on in our local wilderness areas to supply the Silver Lake shamans with their white sage smudge sticks. Grow white sage in your yard and you can roll your own smudge sticks. You can also put a leaf in your water bottle for a refreshing drink. Each fall it should be pruned back to avoid legginess. 2. Cleveland Sage (Salvia clevelandii) This one is becoming as...

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Saturday Tweets: Working Dogs and Expensive Raccoon Meat

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Saturday Linkages
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...ple) February 14, 2015 Horticulturist Nance Klehm plans to show the way on foraging http://t.co/nlGOV58WAi — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 14, 2015 Glyphosate residues in honey: http://t.co/76fByWBzuy — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 12, 2015 The Idler | Online Course: How to Dress – A Guide for the Modern Gentleman with Gustav Temple http://t.co/RAWWiNlkio via @sharethis — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 12, 2015 What to do in the gar...

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