Saturday Linkages: Sedum Stumps, Chicken Steadycams and the End of the World

December 1, 2012

Sedum stump via The Garden Professor’s Blog. Gardening Cool gift idea–plant a sedum stump: http://ow.ly/1PQqq2 Nature Meets Video Chicken as steadycam: http://n.pr/11bA7gl Fantastic slow motion video of sprinting cheetahs – Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/11/26/fantastic-flow-motion-video-of.html … DIY Livin’ Sun Ray Kelly: An Ungated Community http://nyti.ms/Ut6Tb5 Modest Student Micro-Cottage is a Mere 12 Square Meters | Designs & Ideas...

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The Rain Got Real

Mr. Homegrown

February 5, 2024

Gardening, Thoughtstylings

...t porch start clanging before the approaching storm. I checked on our rain garden late last night (excuses for the bad photo) and the water level was the highest I’ve ever seen it. The rain garden gets all the water from one half of our roof which I calculate to have been about 1,500 gallons of water in the last 24 hours. To briefly get back to the Žižek book I rambled about last week, I was reminded of Lacan’s notion of the “Real”, that which is...

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Saturday Linkages: Holiday Edition

Mr. Homegrown

December 21, 2013

Saturday Linkages

...erpriced, useless, or just plain bizarre: an anti-garden gift guide http://gardenrant.com/2013/12/overpriced-useless-or-just-plain-bizarre-an-anti-garden-gift-guide.html … Half Of Supermarket Chicken Harbors Superbugs, Consumer Reports Finds http://huff.to/JKYa1W Why LA’s local water strategy is like ‘Superman 3’ http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/12/13/40922/with-water-from-the-delta-uncertain-la-looks-to-ex/ … Bike helmets and safety: a case study in...

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Weekend Linkages: How To!

Mr. Homegrown

October 10, 2021

Saturday Linkages

...Make a sundial rock for the garden Watch Eric of Garden Fork build pizza oven 2.0 A song about why recipe blog preambles are so long Make a bat detector A video about Canada’s most infamous plant: giant hogweed ‘Overpopulation’ alarmism marginalizes those most vulnerable to climate change...

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138 Erics Gone Wild

Mr. Homegrown

July 3, 2020

Podcasts

...k.a. “East Coast Eric” of Garden Fork TV about concrete work, bears in the garden, plywood boat building and storm windows. Eric has been a frequent guest on the Root Simple Podcast and is back to fill us in on what he’s been up to under quarantine. During the show we discuss: Concrete work using a bonding agent such as Weld-Crete De-cluttering the garage A big gardening problem Building a boat Gavin Atkin Ultra Simple Boat Building 17 Plywood Boa...

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