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Saturday Tweets: Low Hanging Fruit

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Saturday Linkages
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Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks https://t.co/CMU0nQ37Ig via @motherboard — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 15, 2018 Should we consider using plants from warmer, more southern climates to help us deal with climate change (assisted migration)? This one study says perhaps not. Resiliency will require us thinking about the full complexity of adaptive plant systems.https://t.co/bcpmRMcTC9 pic.twitter.com/nkbHs2XmRi — Thoma...

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The Perfect Crisis Vegetable: Prickly Pear Cactus

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...then chop and boil the pads for five minutes to reduce the sliminess. Then I fry the pads in a pan with onions. You can also just chop the pads and eat them raw in a salsa with tomatoes, onions and hot peppers. Some other resources from our blog for what to do with prickly pear fruit: A prickly pear fruit cocktail Juicing prickly pear fruit Prickly pear jam recipe If you’re not in our warm and dry-ish region a good resource for other edible peren...

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Before and After Permaculture

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Gardening, Permaculture
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...An aspirational alternative to the future of jetpacks and space colonies I blogged about yesterday, came to me via the folks at Petaluma Urban Homestead. Noting that I said I was going to sit in on Larry Santoyo’s Permaculture Design Course (PDC), Suzanne of Petaluma Urban Homestead sent me before and after photos of her backyard saying, “This is what happened after I took my PDC!”...

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And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma

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Permaculture
...s of Petaluma Urban Homestead A big thanks to Suzanne and Paul of Petaluma Urban Homestead for giving us a tour of their bit of heaven on earth. Root Simple forgot to bring the camera so you’ll have to check out their blog to see what they are up to. They make a damn good hard cider by the way. We also had the privilege of meeting the inspiring Trathen Heckman of Daily Acts, publisher of the journal Ripples. If that wasn’t enough, Suzanne took us...

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