Organic Seed Growers Webinar

...ce-based information on maximizing crop yields through the conservation of native pollinators, while at the same time helping them to reduce the risk of outcrossing with non-organic crop varieties. Specific topics include the ecology of specialty seed crop pollinating insects, foraging behaviors and flight range of key native bee groups (and the impact of those foraging ranges on crop isolation), bee-friendly farming practices, development of poll...

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Backyard and Backwards Beekeeping

...nciples-of-beekeeping-backwards.365763/ Xerces society: for information on native bees and how to provide habitat. https://www.xerces.org/ YouTube Backwards Beekeepers how-to videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL23D3FtWNSvrs1NDKjpDWolmVfDgcJTKX Books Save the Bees with Natural Backyard Hives: The Easy and Treatment-Free Way to Attract and Keep Healthy Bees by Rob and Chelsea McFarland The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beekeeping...

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Grow Italian!

...ng on the permaculture bandwagon this year with an experiment in the backyard. And look for more root vegetables in our illegal parkway garden. Lest we come across as Eurotrashy, here’s two domestic seed companies that have interesting varieties: Seeds of change. Native Seeds which sells Native American seeds By the way, for us in L.A. the back of the seed packages have no connection with our climate. You need a book like Pat Welsh’s Southern Cali...

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Saturday Tweets: Architectural Screw-Ups, Road Diets and Pet Dragons

A page of architectural screw-ups https://t.co/o31OCzt5h8 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 20, 2018 Go ahead tell me again why road diets are so bad for LA https://t.co/ZlBMWkX9nA pic.twitter.com/siVYC8yZH1 — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) January 15, 2018 New #DIY video on how to make maple syrup with file cabinet evaproator #maplesyrup https://t.co/MJfr3wv5jM — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) January 15, 2018 Delightful site curates New York Times...

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Tolkien and Trees

...65 To the Houghton Mifflin Co. , 1955 : I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals. #83 From a letter to Christopher Tolkien, 6 October 1944: It is not the not-man (e.g. weather) nor man, (even at a bad level), but the man-made that is ultimately daunting and insupportable. If a ragnarök would bum all the slums and...

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