Saturday Tweets: From Archery to Jaywalking

January 24, 2015

...korg — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 23, 2015 Top 10 Ecology Centers & Permaculture Programs in California | Sacred Ecology http://t.co/wL72Fp0uMJ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 23, 2015 Our Ecological Boredom http://t.co/puq09qToO9 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 23, 2015 Beautiful short documentary on the art of letterpress via @BoingBoing http://t.co/qadkgGXSeC — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 23, 2015 Animal Welfare at Risk in...

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Saturday Linkages: Holiday Edition

Mr. Homegrown

December 21, 2013

Saturday Linkages

...y-a-cas.html … Avoid Antibacterial Soaps, Say Consumer Advocates http://on.natgeo.com/18Pptyh Arizona Food and Farm Finance Forum 2014 http://garynabhan.com/i/archives/2366 Practical Permaculture – Planting Under Fruit Trees http://wp.me/p2Lm7J-wK For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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Matching Your Waste Stream to Your Composting Method

Mr. Homegrown

August 12, 2014

Composting, Gardening, Vermiculture

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...all the stuff that can’t go either in the worm bin or the big compost pile. Disadvantages: produces a low quality compost. Alternatives The labor involved in building a big compost pile for a conventional vegetable garden speaks to the advantages of what I think of as alternative permaculture food crops. In our climate that’s things like prickly pear cactus, pomegranates, certain types of grapes, olives and California natives (many of which are ed...

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Village Homes: A Model for Sustainable Suburbs

Mrs. Homegrown

February 21, 2014

Design, Garden Design, Permaculture, Urban Farming

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...to get a feel for it is to watch the 10 minute video above. It’s hosted by Permaculture guru Bill Mollison, who’s a big fan of the development. It’s well worth the time to watch it all the way through. Also, here’s a short paper on the development, which gives all the pertinent facts, friendly for quick skimming: Village Homes: A model solar community proves its worth. And finally, here is a video someone took during a site tour given by Michael C...

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Ikea Karlstad Couch Hack

Mr. Homegrown

March 23, 2015

Design

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...oing to want to scratch it anyways, so why not make the ends scratch-able? Permaculture applied to Ikea hacking! But the path to Ikea hacking is not always kittens and rainbows. The first thing I tried to do was to cut some Ikea shelving in half to approximate the dimensions of the original couch arms. This proved foolish. Some, though not all, Ikea shelves are hollow and lined with flimsy cardboard. As my colleague John Zapf noted, I would have b...

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