Growing Strawberries in a Self Irrigating Gutter (SIG).

...version this gadget out of food grade material such as HDPE. With a custom design you could also enlarge the upper, soil container gutter as well as creating a sealed mosquito proof lower container. But you would have to sort out who owns the patent on self-watering containers. And many thanks to Larry Hall for sharing this cool idea! UPDATE 4/30/2013: One side of the strawberry gutter sprung a leak due to a poor seal on the end of the gutter. I w...

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Saturday Linkages: Repair is Beautiful

...ecor/ … Vintage DIY: Wired Staffers’ Favorite Classic Gear Manuals | Wired Design | http://Wired.com http://www.wired.com/design/2013/01/owners-manuals/ … Thoughtstylings The Tribe of Teenager http://thetanglednest.com/2013/01/the-tribe-of-teenager/ … What your New Year’s Resolutions tell us about the way you think – Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2013/01/16/what-your-new-years-resoluti.html … We’re all gonna die Cheesecake Factory pasta on lis...

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As Above, So Below

...with the plants, insects and animals that make this earth a paradise. The design of this telescope is called a Dobsonian, after its inventor John Dobson, who passed away earlier this year. Dobson’s life took an unusual trajectory. He went from being a self described “belligerent atheist” to a monk in the Vendanta society to co-founding the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers. Most of his life was spent bringing the night sky to people around the w...

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A William Morris Pilgrimage

...ultaneously, attempting to revive lost crafts, translating sagas, weaving, designing and building. The next day we took a long tube and bus ride out to the Red House co-designed by Morris’ friend, the architect Philip Webb. Like the William Morris Gallery, the Red House is a formerly semi-rural house subsumed by 20th century suburbs. The Red House was more modest and more experimental than I expected. It has only come into the National Trust withi...

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Cob Oven Workshop with Ben Loescher

...gister after May 15 $200 In Westchester/Los Angeles 90045 at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity: 6700 W. 83rd Street Register at: www.change-making.com/cob-oven-workshop/ Ben Loescher is a licensed architect, principal of Loescher Meachem Architects, and founder of AdobeIsNotSoftware, an organization which was founded in 2009 to inform, enable and advance adobe construction in California, and educate the public in the building and conservation...

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