2015 Resolutions

January 1, 2015

...gain. (For reference, see this post from 2013) 3) Learn to surf. I’ve been making a little progress. I’m not a surfer yet by any means, but I’m getting good at paddling and spinning the board, but need to work on speed and timing. I need to spend more concentrated time in the water this coming year. So, what is my score? About 60%? Next up: resolutions for 2015 A joint project for Erik and Kelly: Refurbishing the kitchen: new paint, new floor, cle...

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Creating a Moon Garden

Mr. Homegrown

July 17, 2014

Design, Gardening

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...t pollinators and other wildlife. Bornstein had a number of great tips for making a garden interesting at night: Consider color. White flowers, of course, will pop out under moonlight. But yellow flowers stand out even more. We’re lucky in Southern California to have a lot of native plants with silvery grey leaves (an evolutionary adaption of dry climate plants). Masses of silvery grey leaves stand out well at night. Include a contrasting backgrou...

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Saturday Tweets: Toilet Hacks, Egg Laying Charts and Food Porn

Mr. Homegrown

January 3, 2015

Saturday Linkages

...ember 31, 2014 Egg Laying Chart | HenCam http://t.co/Puem22mVJe via @terrygolson — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 How to make parking meters popular: @ACCESS_Magazine http://t.co/EkY7pd3FBu — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 Making Your Own Knives http://t.co/nAfBars2CA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 1, 2015 Our public affair with food porn | Anthropology in Practice, Scientific American Blog Network http://t.co/KpsixUoaqP...

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033 A GMO-Free Los Angeles with Joanne Poyourow

Mr. Homegrown

January 14, 2015

Podcasts

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...GMOs Info for Grassroots campaign organizers Where to find Safe Seeds How to assure your garden is GMO-Free YES Magazine’s summary of the United Nations’ evolving policy toward agriculture L.A. Times article on the power of lobbyists Joanne’s blog can be found at www.Change-Making.com. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in...

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Everything Must Go Part 4: How to Fold Your Clothes

Mrs. Homegrown

January 15, 2015

Cleaning, Domesticus, Tidying up

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...may seem a little extreme, but this simple change in behavior seems to be making all the difference in our dresser drawers. Very simply, KonMari politely insists (while flicking her pink glitter cat o’ nine tails) that we shape our all of our foldables into neat rectangular packets and stand them cheek-by-jowl in our drawers, rather like file folders in a standing file. As someone who has always folded clothes into squarish shapes and stacked the...

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