Weekend Linkages: Fake Judds, Soil Sounds and More

April 21, 2024

...Kim Kardashian sued for saying her tables are authentic Donald Judds How scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil The Easterner Goes West in Three Early American Comics Willy O Winsbury...

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Saturday Linkages: Mobile Pods, Soil Erosion and Getting Doored by a Porta-Potty

Mr. Homegrown

June 14, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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.../06/a-micro-pond-side-reading-podcabin-for.html?spref=tw 7 Ways to Prevent Soil Erosion – http://tafarm.us/1qIPpp Interactive: Inside the changing American diet http://ti.me/1hPvPrK via @TIMEHealth Maybe there’s hope? Report Offers a Way For California to Become Water-Sustainable http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewild/commentary/report-offers-a-way-for-california-to-become-water-sustainable.html … Man on bike strikes porta-potty door; two hurt:...

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The Manzanita Miracle, or, why you should love native plants if you live in a dry climate

Mrs. Homegrown

December 17, 2015

Gardening, Native Plants

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...tegorized a low water use plants. The location was in Los Angeles, and the soil type was a sandy clay. Using this information, we were able to calculate how much water the soil held, and how much the plant used daily, leading us to figure out how long this particular plant can go between waterings–safely. Not pushing it to the edge of death, you understand, just calculating its normal water needs. This figure is called the “irrigation interval” an...

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002 Sugar, Secret Projects and Contaminated Soil

Mr. Homegrown

June 4, 2014

Podcasts

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...up in iTunes....

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Steve Solomon’s Soil and Health e-Library

Mr. Homegrown

October 23, 2012

Resources

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...archive of free e-books maintained by gardening author Steve Solomon. His Soil and Health e-library contains books on “holistic agriculture, holistic health and self-sufficient homestead living” You can download the books for free, but Solomon requests a modest $13 donation. You can find this amazing resource at: www.soilandhealth.org. The “Radical Agriculture” part of the archive contains many early organic ag classics by authors such as Sir Alb...

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