Saturday Tweets: Lyme Disease, Unuselessness and a Plum Mystery

May 5, 2018

...ct to having a city that thinks about pedestrians. #banbegbuttons #tacticalurbanism pic.twitter.com/B8aJunv2Lm — Ollie #carfree and proud Oliver (@Ollie_Cycles) May 1, 2018 This is the kind of public space the U.S. has been most invested in building over the last half century. Not great parks. Or great waterfronts. Spaces that disperse people, rather than bring them together. (This, and well, stadiums, to be fair) pic.twitter.com/OSR91WCoPF — Angi...

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Saturday Tweets: Beet Raisins, Seed Libraries and a Pepperoni Disaster

Mr. Homegrown

April 7, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...e sure to click on "biographies." This project inspires me and returns the energy I put into it in spades. Earth scientists (and others), please consider joining us! — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) April 6, 2018 Why So Many Public Libraries Are Now Giving Out Seeds @atlasobscura https://t.co/YpPQZo4K4h — Rachel Surls (@RachelSurls) April 6, 2018 Eric Garcetti can’t be a ‘climate mayor’ while he’s making more room for cars https://t.co/sg9Uf83izf —...

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Putting Your Civic House in Order: How the Young Members of the Family Help

Mr. Homegrown

July 10, 2017

Gardening

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...n furthering the movement for beauty, though it took an enormous amount of energy and enthusiasm to keep the contest going for a whole year. It is estimated that at least two hundred thousand dollars were expended on small improvements. Seedsmen say they never had such a volume of business and that in the city alone two hundred and eleven thousand people had gardens. Directly or indirectly every one was affected. Through all the contest stress was...

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Natural Cooling: The Fresh Air Bed

Mr. Homegrown

June 19, 2017

Appropriate Technology, Design, Water and Power

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...t the window. The idea lives on, but only for cats, in the form of the Cat Solarium and in many homebrew kitty window solutions. But enough about cats, what we really need is to bring back the California Fresh Air Bed Company’s clever indoor/outdoor bed. As many consider downsizing to smaller houses, space and energy saving furniture such as this make more sense than the oversized sofa sectionals that plague our modern mega-houses. Save Save Save...

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Front Yard Update: Welcome to Crazy Town

Mrs. Homegrown

May 20, 2016

Back to the Garden, front yard series, Gardening

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...f should just be the right size for the space. Trimming is just a waste of energy for you and the plant. But I’ll leave it for now, and if I decide to give the slope over to the golden yarrow, I’ll let the Mexican sage and the purple sage go, too, and see who comes out on top. It would be like botanical cage fighting. Speaking of cage fighting, at the very top of the slope we have a cardoon plant. You can see it in the top left of the top picture....

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