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Saturday Tweets: Waffles, Shipwrecks and Soil Erosion

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...t Simple (@rootsimple) January 16, 2017 From India: Bengaluru's oldest urban farmer leads the way in sustainable living https://t.co/Omj9eVCAJK — Green Guerillas (@greenguerillas) January 15, 2017 The False Prophet [BnF, Latin 8878, 11th c.] pic.twitter.com/fR8D0OOVJG — Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) January 15, 2017 Looking for a way to be on time to work? How about being more energized in the morning? #Biking to work can help! https://t.co/Wu3g...

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Saturday Linkages: Raccoon Robber, Facebook Phreaks and T-Bricks

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...ple) March 4, 2017 California Assembly bill would extend tax break to turn urban lots into farms https://t.co/jbXQ3KMVyW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 4, 2017 T-bricks, the easy way to make an #adobe home https://t.co/2pqQOb93Hp #naturalbuilding — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 4, 2017 Re-purposed Laptop Screen for Raspberry Pi https://t.co/HuqOH6zxGM — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 2, 2017 How to French Polish https://t.co/TttyWoHq9b — Roo...

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Will We Keep Keeping Chickens?

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Animals, Chickens
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...operations. There’s a lot of negatives for keeping chickens in our small, urban backyard. We have lead and zinc in the soil, so many predators that the hens have to live in what I call “chicken Guantanamo,” and a small irregular piece of property that makes using a chicken tractor impossible. While I built a generous run for our four hens, I really wish that they could wander more freely, but that’s just not possible where we live. Another big ch...

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Saturday Tweets: Foxes, Library Hand and Pyracantha

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Gallery of London's urban foxes https://t.co/Et0md5ATv7 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 17, 2017 An Artist Mends Cracks in the Sidewalk with Gold https://t.co/5hGw5RgHln — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 17, 2017 Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs: @atlasobscura https://t.co/N9MsFVmAb3 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 17, 2017 ICYMI on the blog: in praise of pyracantha, by @gardeningshoe1 h...

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