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Saturday Tweets: Goodbye 2017

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Saturday Linkages
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..."green filters" to remove common drugs that contaminate our domestic waste water in Spanish research study. https://t.co/wlqle1JUUv — Fruit Cornucopia (@ValenzuelaJohn) December 24, 2017 Yogurt In An Instant Pot? cc: @rootsimple #instantpot https://t.co/K64VfIWZZN — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) December 24, 2017 Orange tree leaves for a taste of the tropics https://t.co/eR5sjcslCj pic.twitter.com/IEBgIt2kPJ — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) D...

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Spaceship Earth

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Reviews
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...what could be more non-essential than hippie avant-garde thespians? For us urban homesteader types, it’s also good to have a reminder that hubris in the face of complexity is an occupational hazard of anyone who attempts to garden, keep animals, cook from scratch or otherwise interact with things other than laptops and iPhones. You can stream Spaceship Earth via the YouTubes for here. If you haven’t seen Adam Curtis’ All Watched Over by Machines o...

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Meet our book & web designer: Roman Jaster

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Miscellaneous
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Roman Jaster is the gifted designer who designed both Making It and this very website for us. He recently gave a Visiting Designer talk about his work at his alma mater, CalArts and made that lecture public on YouTube. In it, he talks about his childhood in East Germany, the decisions he made early-on which determined his career, his working methods (which are really interesting, combining coding with design) and talks about the concepts behind s...

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2014, a Year in Comments: Plant Thievery, Loquats, Breakfast Cerial and the Apocalypse

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Age of Limits, Food, Permaculture, Thoughtstylings
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...an apricot (I know this sounds like faint praise). Others are just a thin, watery pulp surrounding huge, inedible seeds. I suspect part of Kelly’s motivation for writing this post was her skepticism of my loquat fruit leather recipe. I considered it the equivalent of discovering the loquat northwest passage. Despite Kelly’s brave stab at understanding the loquat, I don’t think we have a definitive answer on the subject. Perhaps we need to construc...

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December Homegrown Evolution Events

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Events
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Bread Making If you’re in the Southern California area, come on down to Good Magazine’s splashy digs for a bread making demo we’ll be doing on Monday December 15th at 12:30 p.m. We’ll be showing how to bake our favorite wild yeast bread (in our book and on our website here). Come at 11:30 a.m. and catch our organic gardening pals at Silver Lake Farms do a talk on winter vegetable crops. Stick around for puppets! Good Magazine is located at: 6824...

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