Saturday Linkages: Passive Cooling, Cats and Three Mules

September 28, 2013

...film, BIKES vs CARS – WE ARE MANY on @Kickstarter http://kck.st/1f7i1Xj @homedepot @lowes: 2/3 of our food crops need bees! Stop selling bee-killing pesticides! #BeeAction @foe_us http://www.beeaction.org Your Future in Farming & Homesteading: FREE 3-Day Webcast Event! (Oct. 1-3, 2013) http://permaculturenews.org/2013/09/25/your-future-in-farming-homesteading-free-3-day-webcast-event/ … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Fol...

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Saturday Linkages: Bitters, Dogs and Native Plants

Mr. Homegrown

December 7, 2013

Saturday Linkages

...meals-handout-now-available/ …. Eagle Rock backyard yields fresh fruit and food for the hungry http://www.theeastsiderla.com/2013/12/eagle-rock-backyard-yields-fresh-fruit-and-food-for-the-hungry/ … Native plants: restoring an idea–http://www.patternliteracy.com/116-native-plants-restoring-to-an-idea … In the U.S., recycling is often pigeonholed as… – Unconsumption http://disq.us/8gf2so For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Foll...

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Roots Simple’s Last Minute Gift Guide

Mr. Homegrown

December 23, 2013

Fermentation, Food, Food Preservation

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...one yourself, but this is a nice all-glass model. Plus, when you buy this you are supporting Ernest Miller who has given countless volunteer hours to build LA’s Master Food Preserver program. What did you give to the homesteaders in your life? Or did you forgo gifts altogether?...

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A happy tangle

Mrs. Homegrown

October 12, 2015

Animals, Nature Awareness

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...t our ripe, ruby red pomegranates, which, when they split open, are also a food source for the birds. It’s hard to describe, and pretty much impossible to photograph, this cheery, eye-popping chaos, but we enjoy it, and the cats are entranced. While I’ve sometimes wondered if it is right to keep a feeder in our yard, I feel good about it as of now, because we are providing other sources of forage as well. We let our plants go to seed. We don’t spr...

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2013 in Review Part II

Mr. Homegrown

December 31, 2013

Thoughtstylings

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...ects on this blog towards good health. Look for more blog posts on healthy food in 2014. We also participated in Stoic Week 2013. Stoicism is a philosophy that helps us deal with the ups and downs of life. And I got my Ham license–KK6HUF. December I harvest one big-ass squash out of the straw bale garden we planted in the spring. In the ongoing post-modern funhouse of mirrors that is the interwebs, reader Molly informs me that Home Depot put our s...

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