Saturday Tweets: A Week of Strange Links

April 2, 2016

...f Stephen Harding (now digitised by @BMDijonPat), is a real medieval comic book. pic.twitter.com/eOm5cFcDd9 — Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) March 31, 2016 #Netherlands sets guidance reducing #meat consumption to twice weekly https://t.co/F68kuFjikj @NatGeoFood @hdbyrne pic.twitter.com/pZ9nPJ8xEc — UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) March 30, 2016 Another cow caught stealing a bicycle…… pic.twitter.com/7gtONxicdn — classicretro (@classicretro) March...

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How to Garden With California Natives: Lessons from the 2016 Theodore Payne Garden Tour

Mr. Homegrown

April 5, 2016

Garden Design, Gardening

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...ive chaparral. Spacing can be tricky. You have to pay attention to nursery labels and not plant too far apart or too close together. Not that plants always perform predictably. You have to go back and edit: fill gaps in or take stuff out. The best gardens on the tour got the massing right like the Hessing/Bonfigli garden in Altadena shown in the photo above. Outdoor Rooms My favorite garden on the tour is the Loxton/Clark garden in Pasadena. It’s...

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081 Foraging for Wild Foods With Leda Meredith

Mr. Homegrown

April 13, 2016

Food, Foraging, Podcasts

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...al Garden, where she is also an instructor. She is also the author of five books including Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plums to Wineberries. Her new book is The Forager’s Feast: How to Identify, Gather, and Prepare Wild Edibles. During the podcast we discuss: The ethics of foraging in city parks Eating invasives Is foraging sustainable? Mallow foam Vegan mallow mayonnaise Dandelion beer Foraging in Israel Foraging...

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117 Raw Milk with David Gumpert

Mr. Homegrown

April 25, 2018

Food, Podcasts

...Behind Americas Emerging Battle Over Food Rights and the Raw Milk Answer Book. You can find his blog and sign up for his newsletter at The Complete Patient. One of the things that comes up in the conversation is the dairy episode of the Netflix documentary Rotten. David posted a review of that episode on his blog. If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. Yo...

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Saturday Linkages: Squirrels, Dry Winter, Workbenches

Mr. Homegrown

November 28, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...The best thing I’ve learned this week is that when squirrels fall/jump – they land like superheroes pic.twitter.com/XuY80hCuNp — ᴊᴀᴄᴋ 👑 ✨ (@JackDMurphy) November 27, 2020 I Twitter thread on what it’s like to work on Black Friday in the U.S. Very dry weather across California through mid-December Make Christmas Ornaments With Toilet Paper Rolls A disaster water filter kit Free e-book on building your own workbench...

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