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

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Garden Design, Gardening
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...peaking of Honey do’s The expression on Kelly’s face says: Erik you better build me a garden shed like this one at the Loxton/Clark garden. Duly noted. Lastly, our neighbor Lora (who also went on the tour) came over yesterday and we had a spirited discussion of “neatness” in these gardens as well as how much labor a garden takes to maintain. Sometimes a garden tour brings up more questions than answers. How much gardening skill can we expect from...

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Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione

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Design
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...ings, rather it’s a manual to teach a vocabulary you can use to design and build your own furniture. Mari says, Therefore the way should be to involve the user of a consumer item in the design and realization of the item designed. Only by actually touching the diverse contradictions of the job is it possible to start to be free from . . . deeply rooted conditioning. It’s no easy feat to make attractive furniture from 2x4s and nails but, especially...

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Saturday Linkages: The King’s Hand

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Saturday Linkages
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...ign Luxury Sneaker Markets Are a Preview of Capitalist Dystopia Farmers Reject Biden’s Pro-Corporate Rural Advisers Out in the wild: how Ken Layne created an alternative to clickbait in the desert Playing God: I sold my wife’s clothes to build a Christmas village in my parents’ basement I had a dream where there was a food called “King’s Hand”, a hollow hand made of m&m cookie, filled with Greek salad. I could not stop thinking about it. Here is t...

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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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