Earth Building Classes!

...chool at their Farm. All of the adobes were made on site by students using native soil, and they’ve been baking bread and making pizza with ingredients grown on-site! It was great to work with such an enthusiastic group – cooking with dirt is more than mud pies! Got something going on?: Drop us a line! We’re anxious to hear about new projects, preservation efforts, classes and folks doing recreational or professional adobe work in California. Ther...

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Saturday Tweets: From Archery to Jaywalking

...kweed (Asclepias curassavica) linked to monarch butterfly parasites. Plant native!: http://t.co/XLYxhP6OC8 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 18, 2015 Here’s a review I’ve written for the @LRB of new books on climate change by @NaomiAKlein and @climategeorge: http://t.co/4fEiHSUWXX — Paul Kingsnorth (@paulkingsnorth) October 17, 2014 How to ignite a flame using gum wrap and a battery pic.twitter.com/MFrUBVXIg8 — Fascinating Videos (@FascinatingVi...

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The Root Simple 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

...mate change and drought for those of us in the arid Southwest? That’s were Native Seed/SEARCH comes in. Silva Ranger 515 Compass Let’s say you don’t want to end up wandering in the desert drinking your own urine, like two of my fellow LA hipsters ended up doing recently. You’re gonna want a compass. No, you can’t use it to rate the park on Yelp or Instagram yourself drinking your own urine. Kids, what the compass is useful for is figuring out wher...

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016 The Urban Bestiary with Lyanda Lynn Haupt

...measures How to encourage wild animals and increase diversity by planting native plants and trees Lyanda also answers listener questions about hawks, coyotes, and feral cats. Lyanda blogs at The Tangled Nest. 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. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Ad...

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