Saturday Tweets: The Short Holiday Version

December 19, 2015

...Creating a food forest, step by step https://t.co/EbNzbzioiT pic.twitter.com/w4udZAFpbD — Permaculture (@PermacultuRRe) December 17, 2015 Car free living in LA: https://t.co/BqIysFjovk — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 17, 2015 New winterizing the beehives #beekeeping vids on https://t.co/1y6V4k5kYj pic.twitter.com/C5wuxtE1OD — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) December 3, 2015...

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071 Farmer Mai Nguyen

Mr. Homegrown

December 16, 2015

Food, Podcasts, Wheat

...we discuss: Southeast Asian vegetables Growing rice Dry farming No-till agriculture Growing wheat Sonora wheat Red Fife wheat Dark rye Managing risk Sheep and draft horses on a small farm To find out more about what Mai is up to check out her blog farmermai.com. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and o...

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069 Understanding Roots with Robert Kourik

Mr. Homegrown

December 2, 2015

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Podcasts, Vegetable Gardening

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...by Dr. John Weaver in the 1920s and 30s and featured in Kourik’s new book Understanding Roots. From there we touch on how to plant fruit trees and the intricacies of how to water trees, vegetables and native plants. Then we delve deep into drip irrigation, dynamic accumulators and phytoremediation. If you’d like to pick up a copy of one of Robert’s books visit robertkourik.com. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please ca...

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Saturday Tweets: Alan Chadwick, Thinking Plants and the Best Restroom in America

Mr. Homegrown

November 14, 2015

Saturday Linkages

...V — Modern Farmer (@ModFarm) November 12, 2015 Ski Town Outhouse Just Won Best Restroom in America https://t.co/hTzuyNrjf0 via @CurbedSki — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 12, 2015 ‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves https://t.co/kUjqVnX0BC — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 10, 2015 Do plants think? James Wong (@botanygeek) considers the evidence https://t.co/3bukQpPoHV pic.twitter.com/TboHRIUh1u — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) N...

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Saturday Tweets: Sourdough Myths and When Parking Meant Trees

Mr. Homegrown

October 31, 2015

Saturday Linkages

...dYICkU — Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) October 27, 2015 City of Los Angeles to consider #lasidewalks policies on Monday November 16th 2pm https://t.co/cLaPGnlrNI pic.twitter.com/Vl2UN0CuIp — Investing in Place (@InvestinPlace) October 27, 2015 Oslo, already a very livable city, just got better: Oslo bans cars by 2019: https://t.co/txfya2WQ6x — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 26, 2015 Petition · Urge UNC Not to Put Krispy Kreme Name on Kids’ He...

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