Natural Cooling: The Fresh Air Bed

...n indoor sofa to an outdoor bed. A 1914 ad in the Pacific Medical Journal describes the device: It is built half inside and half outside, forming a handsome davenport in the room, and an ornamental balcony outside. Can be used as a full size indoor bed or by a very simple operation converted into an outdoor bed. Can be aired all day and yet be concealed. It’s a space saving mashup of the fold-up Murphy bed with the screened porch. It also reminds...

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Soil Positive or just Soil Curious? Join Nancy Klehm For a Workshop on Soils

...ss size: 6 – 15 people Facilitator: Nance Klehm, Director of Social Ecologies , www.socialecologies.net (See bio below) Class Plan: 1. introductions and bio-remediation presentation 2. landscape reading exercise in neighborhood ~potluck lunch 3. compost bin and soil tour of root simple front and back gardens 4. three soil installations – TBA What you will learn: – basic soil structure and biology – qualitative methods of assessing soil health – ho...

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Ill advised grafting projects

...rafted tomato fruits were considered to be safe for consumption. Self-grafted tomato cultivars also had flowering time onsets almost 11 days earlier. However, self-grafting caused 6.0% and 7.6% less total fruit yield per cv. It does remind me of the unsuccessful attempt back in the 1970s to graft hops onto cannabis root stock with the goal of creating a legal looking plant containing THC. The grafts take but the “Hopijuana” plants contain no THC....

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A DIY Tool for Taking Apart Pallets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm_8odBBQZ0&list=UUAh44GRXNB-iB0IWBJ0gGbQ Ever try to break up a pallet without splintering the wood? Personally, I’d put this tool innovation above the level of discovering a unified field theory or spotting life on Mars. This DIY pry bar opens a whole world of pallet wood reuse not possible with a crowbar. And it’s another great video from the folks at Garden Fork TV (who thoughtfully include their trial and erro...

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