Saturday Tweets: Weeds, Bees and General Crankiness

June 2, 2018

...You https://t.co/mXxx6zTUhn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 29, 2018 In my book, I refer to recycling as "Garbage 2.0." Here's why.https://t.co/8IOYwyLfqF — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) May 29, 2018 The religious hunger that drives Jordan Peterson’s fandom https://t.co/z3c7vU1EAz via @voxdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 2, 2018 Don't forget to turn in your library books at the end of the academic year, lest you be 'roasted in a...

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The Brown Derby Cocktail

Mr. Homegrown

May 18, 2020

Food

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...cloudy. A version of it appears as the “De Regueur” in the Savoy Cocktail Book. Some say that bartenders at the Vendome, a popular delicatessen on the Sunset Strip in the 1930s, did a slightly readjusted version of it that ended up being named for the Brown Derby restaurant. Allow me to digress. If Steven Pinker tries to sell you on his hustle of how things are sooooo much better than they used to be just show him what happened to the Vendome: Th...

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Saturday Linkages: And So On . . .

Mr. Homegrown

November 16, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...this in a future post. Florence Caulfield and ‘The Illustrated Needlework Book’ This might be the most 2019 thing I’ve seen Sasquatch or Wendigo? Mysterious howls in Canadian wilderness spark confusion (Mini editorial: I think the native spirits are angry with us) Slavoj Žižek on recycling ecology and consumerism Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories Credit Card Skimmers Evolved: Shimming Faking it: could I go from b...

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Saturday Linkages: Trash Panda Paradise

Mr. Homegrown

November 23, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...ctions on Larry Korn’s Passing, the Preciousness of Elders, Friendship, Love, Kindness, Care How to Say I Love You in Greenlandic An Arctic Alphabet The Secret to a Perfect Hot Glue Mold Planting the Natural Garden a new book by Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen Poor Man’s Quinoa Bernie Sanders, filmstrip entrepreneur This year, why not serve your turkey with green maraschino cherries and watery looking vegetable juice? Simple American...

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136 Garden Fundamentals with Robert Pavlis

Mr. Homegrown

December 11, 2019

Gardening, Podcasts

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...oin the conversation mid-stream as Robert is telling me about his upcoming book Soil Science for Gardeners. During the podcast we talk about: Soil science for home gardeners The problems with soil tests Soil prep for native plants Fungi inoculation products How to open up compacted soil Sources for organic material Ugh, landscape fabric Cardboard in the garden Hügelkultur Winter sowing Baggie technique LED lights How to water houseplants You can f...

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