Saturday Tweets: Flatworms, Potatoes and Old iPhones

June 27, 2015

...bsession:30 Great Gardeners Reveal Why They Garden http://t.co/HWdz2kl1bx #gardening pic.twitter.com/Exy6qaSnNK — Timber Press (@timberpress) June 26, 2015 Ash-Roasted Potatoes: Remember them in Little House on the Prairie? http://t.co/VAsVnp1mqR #NYTCooking — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 26, 2015 Ask Obama save the Arctic from Shell, because arctic critters can’t sign petitions. https://t.co/I9TznyE0EK #SaveTheArctic @savethearctic — Root Simpl...

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047 Done is Better Than Perfect

Mr. Homegrown

May 20, 2015

Animals, Bees, Food, Gardening, Podcasts

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...k Radio episode 377). Eric covers all kinds of DIY topics: everything from gardening, to beekeeping to slow cooking to, well, just about anything you can think of. He also produces an excellent podcast. During our interview we discuss: Raised beds Hoop houses Crawl space vents for hoop houses Foraging for garlic mustard Bread Earth and Fire ebook Decluttering Beekeeping Honeybeesuite.com Mite treatment Keeping bees in the winter Mudsongs.org That...

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Saturday Tweets: Sheds, Roots and Odd Pie Shapes

Mr. Homegrown

May 9, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...onse we got: http://t.co/THoKAXC7OS pic.twitter.com/GhWCH8feGr — Telegraph Gardening (@TeleGardening) May 8, 2015 The real story behind the demise of America’s once-mighty streetcars http://t.co/lTZWUjdk3g via @voxdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 8, 2015 Odd pie shapes of the 17th century: http://t.co/4Zhy9HZOaO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 7, 2015 An indoor garden built of veg scraps–looks like a fun thing for kids (and maybe some adults...

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Composting: Nothing is Wasted

Mrs. Homegrown

May 7, 2015

Back to the Garden, Composting, Gardening

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...obably predicted, is to suggest that we deal with our guilt and our rotten vegetables by first, trying not to be so wasteful, and second, by composting, because spoiled food is not the end of a journey, it’s simply the beginning of a new journey. O, Compost, my Compost! It’s hard not to get sappy about my love for compost. If I could write a poem to compost, I would. And I don’t think I’m alone in my compostophilia. Many clear-headed, rational ind...

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The Soil Beneath Our Feet

Mrs. Homegrown

April 23, 2015

Back to the Garden

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...on behalf of the soil: Our consumer decisions Composting Mulching No-till gardening Committing to not using chemical fertilizers and pesticides This being Root Simple, I know our readers are savvy–in fact, I suspect our readers know more about this stuff than we do. But I natter on nonetheless, preaching to the choir. I hope the information I’ll be posting helps to provide you all with a little inspiration, or a fresh idea. And if you are already...

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