Saturday Linkages: Beetle Party, Floating Homes and Cilantro

June 9, 2018

...ransit Trees https://t.co/wRgHFi3t15 — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) June 8, 2018 If you don’t have time to read the full 70-page UCLA study, then watch this short video on why transit ridership has declined and what can be done about it https://t.co/09uPpcyDCK — StreetsblogLA (@StreetsblogLA) June 7, 2018 Beautiful gardens in the back of Japanese mini pickup trucks https://t.co/Euw432jyF4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 7, 2018 At the peak of its...

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Natural Beekeeping Conference This Weekend!

Mr. Homegrown

August 18, 2016

Animals, Bees, Events

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...More info and the schedule can be found here. Join HoneyLove August 19-21, 2016 for an unforgettable weekend filled with educational lectures and workshops, hands-on demonstrations, the latest in natural beekeeping techniques and findings, an elite collection of exhibitors and sponsors, rare opportunities for you to connect with likeminded beeks, sweet raw honey tastings from around the world AND OUR ANNUAL YELLOW TIE EVENT on August 19th, 6-9pm!...

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080 Lessons From the Theodore Payne 2016 Garden Tour

Mr. Homegrown

April 6, 2016

Gardening, Podcasts

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...me residential drought measures are shortsighted. A blog post we did on the 2016 Theodore Payne Garden tour. Pictures of the gardens on the Theodore Payne tour. The new Hahamongna Cooperative Nursery and Hahamongna Cooperative Nursery Facebook page. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Th...

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Does Facebook Actually Work for Promoting a Small Business or Non-Profit?

Mr. Homegrown

April 27, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...ggerating its actual effectiveness. Any of you who administrate a Facebook page for a business or non-profit will know that unless you pay, Facebook’s algorithm will bury your posts. Some other points Mendelson makes in the interview: A 1% click through rate on a paid post is often as good as it gets. Eighty percent of Facebook users are outside of the U.S. If you’re a local business, like say a plant nursery, what good is paying to reach someone...

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I Deleted my Facebook Account

Mr. Homegrown

April 23, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...ce: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection. It’s a sobering 429 page nightmarish list of social media’s many sins. Then there’s Jeremy Ashkenas who, in a series of tweets, dug up some of Facebook’s patent applications. As others have pointed out these patents read like Black Mirror episode summaries. If that isn’t enough, there’s Facebook’s attempt to exploit depressed teenagers for advertising revenue. Ironically, much of the privacy i...

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