Saturday Tweets: Toilet Hacks, Egg Laying Charts and Food Porn

January 3, 2015

...ember 31, 2014 Egg Laying Chart | HenCam http://t.co/Puem22mVJe via @terrygolson — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 How to make parking meters popular: @ACCESS_Magazine http://t.co/EkY7pd3FBu — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 Making Your Own Knives http://t.co/nAfBars2CA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 Our public affair with food porn | Anthropology in Practice, Scientific American Blog Network http://t.co/KpsixUoaqP...

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Have you ever wanted a uniform?

Mrs. Homegrown

July 21, 2014

Miscellaneous

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...which suits all of my needs (fit, comfort, pockets, good fabric etc.) and making it my very own. I also like to think that having a uniform would eventually save in laundry and reduce material waste over time. It would harken back to the days when people simply didn’t have more than a handful of outfits to wear, but those outfits fit them well and lasted a long time because they were made of quality materials. Lately I’ve been obsessing over the...

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033 A GMO-Free Los Angeles with Joanne Poyourow

Mr. Homegrown

January 14, 2015

Podcasts

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...GMOs Info for Grassroots campaign organizers Where to find Safe Seeds How to assure your garden is GMO-Free YES Magazine’s summary of the United Nations’ evolving policy toward agriculture L.A. Times article on the power of lobbyists Joanne’s blog can be found at www.Change-Making.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...

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Everything Must Go Part 4: How to Fold Your Clothes

Mrs. Homegrown

January 15, 2015

Cleaning, Domesticus, Tidying up

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...may seem a little extreme, but this simple change in behavior seems to be making all the difference in our dresser drawers. Very simply, KonMari politely insists (while flicking her pink glitter cat o’ nine tails) that we shape our all of our foldables into neat rectangular packets and stand them cheek-by-jowl in our drawers, rather like file folders in a standing file. As someone who has always folded clothes into squarish shapes and stacked the...

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FlicFloc Flak

Mr. Homegrown

January 26, 2015

Food, Wheat

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...he FlicFloc. A cheap cracker is fine for cracking corn for chicken feed or making a course grind of rye for a Scandinavian style bread, but it does not make either flour or truly flaked grains. The FlicFloc flakes oats and cracks wheat and rye and it’s easy to clean. I’ve never regretted paying more for a tool that will last a lifetime. I have regretted, many times, buying cheap tools. The FlicFloc broke my Grape Nuts addiction. It will pay for it...

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