Saturday Tweets: Air Plants, Nutrition and Empathy

December 13, 2014

...to bloom http://t.co/dUBJiYaC9k via @bHomeApp pic.twitter.com/SfvVfUlwii — Garden Therapy (@Garden_Therapy) December 6, 2014 Congress again micromanages nutrition standards http://t.co/3jghJTf6Ch — Marion Nestle (@marionnestle) December 11, 2014 Time Inc. Sells Sunset Magazine’s Test Kitchens and Gardens http://t.co/V9rKgBtmnG — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 11, 2014 Six Ways to Flex Your Empathy Muscle http://t.co/HjdcLJf5wU #LoveMatters via...

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Saturday Linkages: Composting People, Jujubes, Bumpy Eggs and More

Mr. Homegrown

September 20, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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...http://hencam.com/henblog/2014/09/a-bumpy-egg/ … Death Enhances a Garden | Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2014/09/death-enhances-a-garden.html … Monsanto Woos Mommy Bloggers – Modern Farmer http://bit.ly/XOx1SA Cool #ecotip How to store vegetables and fruit without plastic: http://www.washingtonsgreengrocer.com/everything-else/storage-tips/how-store-vegetables-fruit-without-plastic.htm … Hot? Get a fan: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/09/ci...

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Saturday Linkages: Poison, Pee and Plagiarism

Mr. Homegrown

March 30, 2013

Saturday Linkages

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...-pin-shaped-birdhouses/ … Thar she blows . . . Here’s to No-Blow Gardens | Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2013/03/heres-to-no-blow-gardens.html … DIY Pure Salvage: 10 Eclectic Tiny Homes Built with 99% Scrap | Designs & Ideas on Dornob http://dornob.com/pure-salvage-10-eclectic-tiny-homes-built-with-99-scrap/ … Poison Umm…what exactly is botulism? (Part I) http://wp.me/p2TfI0-64 The case of the poison potato: http://boingboing.net/2013/03/25/th...

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Erik’s 2012 New Year’s Resolutions in Review

Mr. Homegrown

December 31, 2012

Thoughtstylings

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...instead of playing catch-up at the last minute: I did indeed plan out the garden but nature had her own plans including a destructive series of skunk attacks. I’ve switched to a hands-off approach to veggie gardening inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka. Start a podcast (decided to make it a video podcast). You can subscribe in the iTunes store here (it’s freeeeee!). Clean up the graphic design on the blog and organize information better: Thank you to ou...

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Homesteading Disasters: The Skunk Menace

Mr. Homegrown

October 12, 2012

Mistakes

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...And each year I wake up the morning after planting to a kind of vegetable garden apocalypse–dozens of V shaped holes, overturned seedlings and scattered seeds. And each year I swear off vegetable gardening entirely. Actual photo of absent-minded conquistadors. So what’s the science behind this? Why do skunks dig? Skunks dig for doubloons dropped by absent-minded conquistadors many generations ago here in California. Our gardens in Los Angeles are...

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