Saturday Linkages: Naked Gardening, Ticks, Walking in LA and Eating Giant Rats

May 4, 2013

...es-give-slum-dwellers-a-safe-home-in-just-one-day/ … Subtle Site Strategy: Garden Wall Home Has Hidden Depths | Designs & Ideas on Dornob http://dornob.com/subtle-site-strategy-garden-wall-home-has-hidden-depths/ … We’re all gonna die! You Won’t Believe What’s In Your Turkey Burger http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/04/theres-fecal-bacteria-your-ground-turkey … The Rise of the Tick http://shar.es/lr7aE Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of C...

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Saturday Linkages: Tall Bikes, Za’atar and So Much More

Mr. Homegrown

April 27, 2013

Saturday Linkages

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...d 400 years of African-American history: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/garden/joe-minters-african-village-in-america.html?ref=garden … pic.twitter.com/qx07xlvDa4 Bikin’ Here’s what it feels like to ride a 14.5-foot-tall bike http://grist.org/list/heres-what-it-feels-like-to-ride-a-14-5-foot-tall-bike/#.UXl2JmJoeY0.twitter … Bikesnob on self driving cars: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2013/04/this-just-in-off-to-cleveland-then-im.html … For t...

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Nursery Customers From Hell

Mr. Homegrown

April 19, 2013

Gardening, Thoughtstylings

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...nts in Los Angeles, check out the neighbors in your hood. EVERYONE grows a garden, all it takes is time. And in the end, I was able to achieve great results! I’ve always wanted my own staff of academics so, personally, I’m looking forward to spending a month “paying professors to analyze our soil.” As to “EVERYONE” growing a garden in Los Angeles, I suspect this Yelper is referring to the mowed weeds and Home Depot topiary that accounts for most o...

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Our Keyhole Vegetable Bed: What Worked and What Didn’t Work

Mr. Homegrown

April 17, 2013

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...future solar powered fountain that will be incorporated in a new vegetable garden we’re working on. Here’s what the keyhole bed looked like just after I installed it back in October. Note the compost repository in the center of the bed. I used straw wattle (available where professional irrigation supplies are sold) to form the sides of the keyhole. A month later in November a few seedlings were popping up. I had to robustify the skunk barrier (mad...

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The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future: Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta

Mr. Homegrown

April 5, 2013

Garden Design, Gardening

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...he town council who wanted to tax it, claiming that it was a gallery not a garden. Little Sparta was a place of healing for the intensely agoraphobic Finlay. In the city, he could barely leave his room–at Little Sparta he could go outside. This is one of my favorite gardens–I’m a sucker for classicism but I also like that it has a narrative, that it tells the story of the people who lived in it. Here’s here’s another nice video about Little Sparta...

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