How to Shave With a Safety Razor

October 6, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qSIP6uQ3EI I grew up towards the end of an era that promised jet packs, flying cars and the perfect shave. Of these three fantasies the most absurd was driven by the ever changing technology of men’s shaving products. Along with the myth of shaving progress came ever greater prices for blade cartridges. A few years ago I had enough of the price gouging and bought an old fashioned safety razor. Unfortunately, I did...

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Holy Scrap on the Road

Mr. Homegrown

October 1, 2015

Domesticus

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=156&v=IM8OPqJnOHE The Holy Scrap Hot Springers, our guests on episode 18 of the podcast are spending seven months touring the US in their pimped out Honda element. In this video Wendy and Mikey show off their 35 square foot “Hondominium” from which they run an eBay based business out in the middle of nowhere/everywhere....

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When It Rains in LA

Mr. Homegrown

September 22, 2015

Thoughtstylings, Videos

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m4hryJ4Nag I post this for the benefit of those of you who don’t live in Los Angeles. It reminds me of a junior high memory. I went to one of those schools built in the 1950s with a broad bank of windows on the side of each classroom. During an English class it started to rain. The entire class spontaneously got up and ran to the window. The teacher, a transplant from New England was, at first, confused and then s...

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Peat Moss is Gardening Crack

Mr. Homegrown

August 13, 2015

Gardening

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...moss is as sustainable as tobacco is safe. Here’s those citations: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090904165253.htm http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/content/44/2/312.full.pdf+html cpl.usu.edu/files/publications/factsheet/pub__9468201.pdf http://puyallup.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/horticultural-peat.pdf http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/Hort/Environmental/Media_Nutrition/COIR%20potential.htm When I put this article in Fac...

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Strapping Bee Hives

Mr. Homegrown

July 27, 2015

Animals, Bees

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=225&v=i_XZFOQau2c Eric, of Garden Fork TV, posted a video response to my scary toppled hive situation. Langstroth hives are heavy and get tipped over by high winds, bears, teenagers and (where I am) earthquakes. Eric says: Strapping your hives with ratchet straps, the good kind used by truckers, will reduce the chaos when a beehive is knocked over. We first started strapping our beehives as part of our bear proof t...

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