Saturday Tweets: The Earth Laughs in Flowers

August 27, 2016

....co/H0pXswquWG via @YouTube — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 27, 2016 20 Native North American Foods with Stories to Tell https://t.co/8IBMl28fKB — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 27, 2016 A Museum Dedicated to Miniature Architectural Models Opens in Tokyo @WTerrada https://t.co/YY2Vcj37Lv pic.twitter.com/N5W6oZ2HGn — Colossal (@Colossal) August 24, 2016 Angered over Sap, Man Cuts Down Tree, Sending It onto His Own Apartment House https://t.co/...

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Satan’s Easter Basket is Filled with Plastic Easter Grass

Mrs. Homegrown

March 29, 2016

Domesticus, Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings

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...round this morning, especially because Echo Park surrounds a lovely little urban lake full of birds. Read on to find out why. 4 Excellent Reasons to Avoid Plastic Easter Grass and use all of your influence to make sure other people avoid it, too: Domestic cats and dogs eat Easter grass and it can cause intestinal obstruction. Cats are particularly attracted to its stringy texture, but dogs might also gobble it up when they raid a kid’s Easter stas...

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Saturday Linkages: Modem Sounds, HOAs, and Hand Counting

Mr. Homegrown

September 10, 2016

Saturday Linkages

...t.co/9s6lQIQc6a — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 9, 2016 5 Make-Shift Urban Survival Lights When the Electricity Goes Down https://t.co/kSgRehCXAw via @sharethis — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 5, 2016 Well said, Carol! It's 90 degrees in the shade — have you watered that tree? https://t.co/AJj90FJbTn #drought #LANHM #ilovetrees — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 2, 2016 New #DIY video, how to install a french drain https://t.co/...

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Saturday Tweets: Compacted Soil, Bikes and Mirrored Headboards

Mr. Homegrown

March 26, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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New research on how to treat compacted urban #soil to help trees thrive https://t.co/tzhvk3pisZ @vtnews pic.twitter.com/x3QwSpKEgS — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) February 24, 2016 The Free Rider myth flipped: Are cyclists actually subsidising car drivers? https://t.co/qQaRd5eubE via @MomentumMag pic.twitter.com/fehEMXKh7B — Darren Davis (@DarrenDavis10) March 25, 2016 11-year-old's LA Times op-ed "My vision of a livable city is one where k...

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What’s Your Everyday Carry?

Mr. Homegrown

May 9, 2017

Preparedness

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One of the more fetishistic subcultures in the urban homesteading activity playpen is an obsession with “everyday carry,” abbreviated by hip insiders as “EDC.” EDCers peacock their carefully curated sets of survival tools in photos called “pocket dumps.” The internet’s Mecca of pocket dumps is everydaycarry.com. On that site you’ll see color and texture coordinated EDCs reminiscent of the leather and wood appointments of the luxury yachts of Russ...

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