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Organize Those Drip Irrigation Parts!

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Gardening, Water and Power, Water Conservation
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...full of irrigation parts. Now this could be one of those self-aggrandizing homesteady posts were it not for the fact that it took me fifteen years to organize my drip irrigation parts. I spent those previous years fishing for parts in a partially collapsed cardboard box. Take my advice: if you own a house, are an avid gardener and use some kind of timed irrigation, thou shalt organize all those parts. Maintaining an irrigation system is, unfortuna...

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Weekend Linkages: All Plants and Mirrors

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Saturday Linkages
Build a protected garden enclosure Mayor de Blasio’s strange burger and fries moment A Visit to the CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collection Digital tulip fever Chipotle Is a Criminal Enterprise Built on Exploitation A Caledonia house on the edge of a crumbling cliff has sold after a monthslong saga The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory Ever wonder what all of those surface car parking lots in downtown LA used...

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Los Angeles: A New Beginning

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Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Thoughtstylings, Transportation
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...n once said, “it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” But that’s just what the mayor began to imagine thanks to the unlikely conjunction of an algorithm and a raccoon. He realized it was well past time to learn to dig not learn to code. It was time to build sea walls instead of apps, bus lanes instead of battery packs, affordable housing instead of Olympic villages. With all the freeways gone he was able t...

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February 2019 Garden Update

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Gardening
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...fruit. Think carefully about their placement. Do all hardscaping first and build it out of durable materials. Those retaining walls that failed in the front yard are wood and only lasted 15 years. If you don’t know what your doing hire a professional. It think this would have actually saved money over the years due to hasty and poorly thought out amateur landscaping attempts. If our house was not on a hill I would also seriously consider adding a...

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