Saturday Tweets: Crowbox, Urban Walking and the War on Cars

August 25, 2018

...mas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) August 19, 2018 New #podcast Talking Mushroom Foraging and Canning Pickles https://t.co/hCizzioeEB pic.twitter.com/oKpzA87piW — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) August 14, 2018 I love that someone added tomato cages! https://t.co/2fKOyyiBv1 — Erin (@ImpatientGarden) August 17, 2018 Google admits it tracks users’ location after they turn off location history https://t.co/qEh3Rq5j90 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 17, 2018...

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Three California Natives that Double as Culinary Herbs

Mr. Homegrown

January 16, 2017

Gardening

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...e. Grow these plants in your garden and you can dodge the controversies of foraging in the wild. Towards that end, I thought I’d look at three easy to grow California natives that look great in a garden and double as culinary herbs. White sage (Salvia apiana) If you can grow this one you should. Like most California natives, when used as a culinary herb, it’s much stronger tasting than its cultivated cousins. You need to use it sparingly when cook...

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Help! Small birds are eating us out of house and home!

Mrs. Homegrown

July 24, 2014

Animals, Mistakes

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...owers and white sage gone to seed. Perhaps we should have left it at that? ( I suspect we’re not going to win any permaculture awards for our feeder.) Bird people, help! What are your thoughts on feeders? Is it okay to leave the feeder empty sometimes? Does that encourage foraging, or is it just not very nice to be random about the filling? Is there a cheaper alternative to Nyjer ™ seed that finches like? Perhaps something that doesn’t come from A...

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