Saturday Tweets: Crowbox, Urban Walking and the War on Cars

August 25, 2018

...ter.com/YqGqW20JkL — HarvardPublicHealth (@HarvardChanSPH) August 22, 2018 Urban walking isn’t just good for the soul. It could save humanity | Jonn Elledge https://t.co/WzAOB1t99g — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 21, 2018 Fascinating graphic. The areas in yellow show wild bee declines. Notice that it follows the most intensive agricultural areas: America’s corn belt, Mississippi River floodplains, & California’s central valley. Big ag killing p...

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Urban Homesteading and Homeowners Associations

Mr. Homegrown

October 4, 2013

Thoughtstylings

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...ne. I’m curious to hear from readers who live in an HOAs. Did you get into urban homesteading before or after moving to an HOA? Have you ever gotten in trouble? What did you do about it? Do the benefits of living in an HOA outweigh the restrictions? And there are less restrictive HOAs. I once met a couple who live in an HOA in Orange County, CA that allows chickens. Flagpole antenna. Source: The Doctor is In Some HOA residents take a stealth appro...

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The Three Sisters

Mr. Homegrown

August 31, 2007

Permaculture, Vegetable Gardening

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...ped the ante by planting the Native American three sisters–corn, beans and squash. The three sisters are textbook permaculture, the idea being that the beans nitrogenate the soil and climb up the corn while the squash provides mulch. All plants are useful and you end up with an interdependent, self-sustaining beneficial feedback loop. Some people add a fourth sister, Rocky Mountain bee plant (Cleome serrulata) which attracts pollinating insects fo...

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041 Sounds of the Homestead

Mr. Homegrown

April 1, 2015

Animals, Bees, Chickens, Gardening, Podcasts

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Kelly and Erik discuss some of the unusual sounds heard around the Root Simple compound: chickens, cats, bees and, yes, Kaiser Permanente’s music on hold. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additional music by Rho. A downloadable version of this...

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054 Digital Design Tools on the Homestead

Mr. Homegrown

July 22, 2015

Design, Podcasts

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Our topic this week is using digital design tools such as Sketchup to conceptualize and build simple projects around your house or apartment. Our guest is designer John Zapf, proprietor of Zapf Architectural Renderings and the genius behind our chicken run. During the podcast we discuss: Why you should draw up plans before you build something Architectural Graphics Standards Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) technology John’s Cat Bed 7 (pictu...

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