Saturday Tweets: Alan Chadwick, Thinking Plants and the Best Restroom in America

November 14, 2015

...//t.co/kUjqVnX0BC — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 10, 2015 Do plants think? James Wong (@botanygeek) considers the evidence https://t.co/3bukQpPoHV pic.twitter.com/TboHRIUh1u — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) November 10, 2015 Fixing potholes with ice cream mosaics: https://t.co/IZLfxs7t2x — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 10, 2015...

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Saturday Tweets: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

Mr. Homegrown

November 28, 2015

Saturday Linkages

...wer #askalys https://t.co/hBbUMnainM pic.twitter.com/y4KdI1toNB — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) November 28, 2015 The LACBC Open House is on Thursday, December 3rd! RSVP and join us to learn what LACBC has been up to! https://t.co/iQ3EEn39iJ #bikeLA — LACntyBikeCoalition (@lacbc) November 28, 2015 I've always imagined it will be this way, too!: Air travel ain’t what it used to be (Comic) https://t.co/RIUsGqB9B0 #psychictwins — Root Sim...

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Picture Sundays: Josephine Baker Tending Vegetables

Mr. Homegrown

January 24, 2016

Picture Sundays

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...Looks like Baker’s talent extended to gardening!...

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What To Do With Old Vegetable Seeds

Mr. Homegrown

November 27, 2012

Gardening, Permaculture, Vegetable Gardening

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...e garden, growing in the understory of some small fruit trees, looked like in January of this year: And there you have it–vegetable gardening with a fraction of the work....

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Mosaic Artist Jeffrey Bale

Mr. Homegrown

February 22, 2016

Design, Garden Design, Gardening

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Jeffrey Bale is one of my gardening heroes and this video is, in my opinion, mandatory viewing. Bale’s artistic medium is the pebble mosaic and he’s taken his craft to levels not seen since the ancients. Bale spends three months every year traveling the world and searching for inspiration for his work. His astonishingly beautiful and insightful blog chronicles his travels and work. Bale captures what I think is missing in a lot of contemporary ar...

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