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Weekend Tweets: The Orchid Mantis, Self-sufficiency and Self Driving Cars

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Saturday Linkages
...on SoCal Edition https://t.co/mXNTOOcapd via @wordpressdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 10, 2016 DC Used to Fly the Skull and Cross-Bones to Mark Each Traffic Death https://t.co/XQsKvA5Zx1 via @StreetsblogNet — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 10, 2016 The History Of How Los Angeles Became A City Of Palm Trees https://t.co/aknEUgXWGl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 9, 2016 We don’t need self-driving cars – we need to ditch our vehicles en...

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Growing Strawberries in a Self Irrigating Gutter (SIG).

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Gardening, Self Watering Containers
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...s article on this). Coconut coir, in my experience works great, but not in self watering containers. If you know of a peat moss alternative for self-watering containers, please comment. There might also be mosquito problems with the standing water in the lower gutter. This could be countered with a mosquito dunk. Advantages I can now grow food in an otherwise useless space–the top retaining wall in our front yard (we live on a hill). I can also, f...

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SIPS and Kraut at Project Butterfly

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Events
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...itchen a center of production. This lecture/workshop by the authors of The Urban Homestead, Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen will introduce you to how to grow your own food, make pickles, ferment beer, keep chickens, bake bread and turn your waste products into valuable resources. By stepping into the DIY movement, we’ll create a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community and our planet. Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne, authors of The Urba...

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Urban Chicken Enthusiasts Unite!

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Animals, Chickens
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...hicken keepers. And we often meet people who would like to know more about urban poultry. So I’ve decided to create a group of L.A. urban chicken enthusiasts. I used meetup.com to create the L.A. Urban Chicken Enthusiasts group. I like Meetup because the point is to organize face to face meetings. Our group will get together every month or so, eat eggs dishes and talk about raising chickens, local food and sustainability. The L.A. Urban Chicken En...

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