Saturday Tweets: Rocket Stoves, Cheese Museums and a Round Earth

May 26, 2018

...May 26, 2018 Shaping the shape of wood: https://t.co/Gdo8z1TlOy via @wordpressdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 24, 2018 In the land of giants: https://t.co/LKSG5JRpBf — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 22, 2018 Predatory behavior runs rampant in Facebook’s addiction support groups https://t.co/j5E575Db2v via @Verge — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 21, 2018 ‘The Earth is, in fact, round’ https://t.co/XUSP6JuYbV — Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval...

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Saturday Tweets: Touch Your Opuntia

Mr. Homegrown

April 14, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...the beautiful drawings (mugwort in this instance), there are intricate scenes in the background of 16th-century Italian rural life British Library Add MS 22332, f. 111rhttps://t.co/EjOqRvvnzv pic.twitter.com/SA5Wmhfgt1 — Julian Harrison (@julianpharrison) April 13, 2018 The Lovely Loquat https://t.co/efKI8vBSL5 — Plant Report (@PlantReport) April 13, 2018 Koretz blocks bike lanes but slobbers over car company CEO’s harebrained car tunnel scheme. Y...

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067 Wild Drinks and Cocktails With Emily Han

Mr. Homegrown

November 4, 2015

Fermentation, Food, Food Preservation, Foraging, Podcasts

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...ild Drinks and Cocktails and the Communications Director for LearningHerbs.com. Emily’s website is EmilyHan.com. During the show we discuss the difference between “wildcrafting” and “foraging” and how you can use easily foraged herbs, fruits, pine needles and flowers to make shrubs, switchels, tonics and infusions. Emily also shares her easy distillation method and advice on what to do with all those prickly pear fruits! If you want to leave a que...

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Saturday Tweets: Sheds, Roots and Odd Pie Shapes

Mr. Homegrown

May 9, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...#drought. http://t.co/gXAWf8WTe4 pic.twitter.com/0QpaPngBXx — Ag&Natural Resources (@ucanr) May 8, 2015 We asked to see your sheds and we can’t believe the incredible response 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...

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More Thoughts on Thinning the Library

Mr. Homegrown

January 16, 2015

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...e. Despite reading the Bookcrossing website multiple times, I’m not sure I understand what it’s all about. Scheduling Periodic Purges Several people noted that curating a library (or clothes, for that matter) is an ongoing process. Some pare possessions quarterly, others yearly. Others, like us, wait for a crisis. Some have a kind of one in, one out rule–basically limiting your library to what will fit on your shelves, disallowing homeless tomes o...

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