Satan’s Easter Basket is Filled with Plastic Easter Grass

...round this morning, especially because Echo Park surrounds a lovely little urban lake full of birds. Read on to find out why. 4 Excellent Reasons to Avoid Plastic Easter Grass and use all of your influence to make sure other people avoid it, too: Domestic cats and dogs eat Easter grass and it can cause intestinal obstruction. Cats are particularly attracted to its stringy texture, but dogs might also gobble it up when they raid a kid’s Easter stas...

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Root Simple: 2015 in Review

...not optimistic about this but I hope to be proved wrong. Honesty in Urban Homesteading We don’t do nearly enough blogging about the many hair brained notions and failed projects that transpire here at the Root Simple Compound and Labs. We did mange to chronicle a few of our shortcomings, such as our lack of a clothes line (Busted: Drying Racks, Clothes Lines and Cheese Puffs), the train wreck that was our summer garden (Our Disasterous Summer Gar...

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Native Plant Workshop

...birds, butterflies and hummingbirds. With only 4% of our wild lands left, urban and suburban native plant gardens will be the “make or break” difference to the support and preservation of bio-diversity. Lisa will show and tell you about several varieties of native plants as well as provide samples for sale. Immediately after the lecture in the garden we will be conducting a tour of the house to show and tell you about green products and renovatio...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Ants, Bikes and LA as Heat Island

...r 26, 2015 The World’s Nuttiest Bike Lane NIMBYs Live in a San Diego Beach Community http://t.co/5OYs7Hk4nA via @StreetsblogUSA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 26, 2015 Steel and 2×4 Full Dining Table Set http://t.co/LDdjPiJsHJ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 24, 2015 Waterproof Pouches, Almost Free! http://t.co/imr4cBHhcy — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 24, 2015 4 Days Camping – No Cooler http://t.co/Fs9MbsMCFd — Root Simple (@r...

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City of Angels Permaculture Academy Design Course Series

...eing some of you there. Here’s the 411: One weekend a month for 6 months. World-class education for less than $12 an hour! Discounts, Payment Plans and up to 50% Work-Trade Still Available You can drop in for one day- or for the whole series. Elegant Home and Gardens- DIY Design & Build Learn Urban Homesteading Skills Community Projects Starting a Neighborhood Business Hands-On Natural Building / Sustainable Landscaping Permaculture in Schools and...

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