Saturday Tweets: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

November 24, 2018

...2018 Here's raw footage of the Barney balloon getting destroyed in the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade… pic.twitter.com/zTBZjoYXOj — Tanooki Joe (@TanookiKuribo) November 22, 2018 Very good agroecology thread here! https://t.co/j1jGfbPE8o — Fruit Cornucopia (@ValenzuelaJohn) November 21, 2018 We're holding a major town hall on Dec. 3 to talk about one of the most pressing global crises facing us today: climate change. Will you be...

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Steal this Book!

Mr. Homegrown

May 28, 2008

Thoughtstylings

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...or you can get an autographed copy from us over on the right side of this page. Tell your friends and family! Blog, twitter, friend, digg and yell! From the press release: The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a burgeoning new movement: urbanites are becoming farmers. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, city dwellers are reconnecting with their land while planting seeds for the future for our cities. Whether you’d...

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Garlic!

Mr. Homegrown

June 2, 2008

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...garlic, but there are special varieties for cold climates that you can mail order. The University of Minnesota Extension has a nice page on growing garlic in cold places....

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Casting out the lawn

Mr. Homegrown

June 5, 2008

Lawns, Thoughtstylings

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...s were used in the Middle Ages as barns, after all). For more info and photos, see Holy Nativity’s Community Garden page....

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It’s Official: The End is Near

Mr. Homegrown

May 21, 2007

Preparedness

...al warming related natural disasters such as hurricane Katrina. On another page we find an ad for “America’s newest stars” Qatar Airway’s direct service between Washington D.C., New York and Doha. Together these stories and ads indicate a country so hooked on driving that our business and government power elites jet off to Qatar to cut deals with corrupt and homicidal oil interests while simultaneously sacrificing our agriculture to our gas tanks,...

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