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Weekend Tweets: Strawberry Season, Air Plant Therapy and Trees Eating Things

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Saturday Linkages
...ou needed some ideas! https://t.co/EFAz5WrKIf pic.twitter.com/DbfnVpFvIz — Food in Jars (@foodinjars) May 6, 2016 Cashew Butter with Honey and Cinnamon https://t.co/xQd0vZk8zk — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2016 How to Revive a Sick Air Plant via @Garden_Therapy https://t.co/7aQVr93hl8 pic.twitter.com/E5KQLjMyW0 — Fairy Tale Gardens (@JennasFairyTale) May 4, 2016 Trees “eating” things https://t.co/gjgBwqMo54 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 4,...

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Announcing Our New Solar Cooking Initiative

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Solar, Solar Oven Summer
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...cially for an unknown quantity. Would they really work? Could we make good food in one? I certainly didn’t want to spend a couple of hundred bucks on an oversized rice cooker. Wait! I almost forgot. We do have a solar oven in our garage! And if I don’t mention it, the Internet will make me a liar. Erik posted on it back in 2013. He was gifted a Sundiner, which is a 60’s era solar oven. We never use it because, being a product of the 60’s, it has a...

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How to Make a Simple Paint Can Rocket Stove

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Appropriate Technology, Rocket Stove, Water and Power
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...es achieved in a true rocket stove combustion chamber.“ Rocket stoves cook food with small pieces of wood efficiently and with much less smoke than conventional wood burning stoves. They also help prevent deforestation since you can burn small twigs trimmed off a tree rather than burning logs. Search the interwebs and you’ll find may different designs. But they are all based on burning wood in an “L” shaped tube to create a chimney effect. Insulat...

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More boneheaded plant representations from Hollywood

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Gardening, Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings
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...te world, no one needs to know the name of any plant to get by day to day (food plants excepted), but if a person ever intends to go outside (optional, I know) they’d better know how to identify local plants which cause contact dermatitis. Like poison sumac. Poison sumac (Toxicodendron vernix) is a shrub or tree which grows in wet spots in the Eastern parts of the U.S. and Canada. It looks nothing whatsoever like a fern. Or a pansy. It is apparent...

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