Emily, We’ll Miss You

July 21, 2015

...and there’s no replacement. I hope she’ll keep up her blog Chance of Rain. If you haven’t visited lately, you should check out her excellent twelve part series, After the Lawn. LA Observed has a tribute to Green, Goodbye to all this....

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Saturday Tweets: Micro Campers, The Whole Earth Catalog and a Post-Antibiotics Future

Mr. Homegrown

April 4, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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....co/nwPSkmeWRk — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 1, 2015 Emily Green's series continues: “After the Lawn” Part 3: Turf dormancy http://t.co/CzFKwiI4uT — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 4, 2015 History Of the Whole Earth Catalog and The Birth of West Coast Publishing http://t.co/CWP5kGX8mN — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 30, 2015 Some good points here on the drought–we need strong government action now, not later: http://t.co/KcStelAOHB via @...

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Saturday Tweets: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

Mr. Homegrown

November 28, 2015

Saturday Linkages

...ned – Urban Digs Farm https://t.co/8HWF4jgCVL pic.twitter.com/826NcJzCe2 — Urban Agriculture (@UrbanAgRRicult) November 28, 2015 HGVs: designed for the open motorway & inexplicably now commonplace on crowded city streets. pic.twitter.com/DqpIhb3F7o HT @Cycle_Kix — KarlOnSea (@KarlOnSea) November 28, 2015 How do I get my agapanthus to flower? @AlysFowler has the answer #askalys https://t.co/hBbUMnainM pic.twitter.com/y4KdI1toNB — Guardian gardening...

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Hipster Compost

Mr. Homegrown

June 30, 2014

Composting, Gardening

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An updated, urban version of the soil food web. In the nearly sixteen years we’ve lived here we’ve seen our local stretch of Sunset Boulevard go from boarded up storefronts and auto body shops to restaurants, bars and cafes. Along with those new businesses and artisinal facial hair, comes a great new set of compost sources. Some of my enterprising neighbors, one in particular, have been creating what could be called hipster compost or, at least,...

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Got a Critter Question?

Mr. Homegrown

September 3, 2014

Animals, Podcasts

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...Our guest on the next episode of the Root Simple Podcast will be Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild. We’re interviewing her tomorrow (Thursday) so if you have a question about coyotes, moles, raccoons, opossums, squirrels, rats or any of the other creatures that visit our urban backyards, leave a comment....

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