Learn to Embroider at Trade School Los Angeles

...ing barter items: a pack guitar strings; a paperback novel; a bag of local fruit; help with finding an apartment. Every class’s barter will be different, as each instructor sets their own class’s exchange. Step 2) Students sign up for classes on our website, and, by signing up, they agree to bring 1 of the barter items requested by the instructor. Step 3) On the day of class, the teachers & students meet in a space that is made available by Trade...

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Boozing Bees

...issue, there’s an article about an attempt to reconcile the need to spray fruit trees with pesticide and the impact of those chemicals on bees. Another talk at the conference by Dr. May Berenbaum of Cornell, that I was only able to hear part of, looked at the history of the use of pesticides. Honeybees are a complex organism and their interaction with pesticides can often work in counter-intuitive ways, as Berenbaum showed in a study that proved...

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How to Store Bulk Goods

...s and techniques with your neighbors. Knowing the folks on our block, thanks to our neighbor Jennie’s monthly happy hour parties, has been helpful. We check in via Zoom once a week, trade food and backyard fruit and run errands for folks in deep quarantine. We need not equate emergency preparedness with the sort of destructive individualism partly responsible for getting us into this mess....

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Saturday Linkages: Corona Borealis

...d Be. Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice Musso & Frank Martini lesson Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures Meet the Coronavirus Profiteers Mike Davis: Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks Bianca about a very, very wide dress I Cut My Hair With a Vacuum Cleaner Introducing Coverage Critic: Time to Kill the $80 Mobile Phone Bill Forever This caused...

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Saturday Linkages: Juneteenth

...Oakland mural by Elaine Chu and Marina Perez-Wong. A Juneteenth of Joy and Resistance Joe Lamp’l Rants about Mosquito Spraying Services, and 9 More Things Here’s All the Free Online Stuff You Get With Your L.A. Library Card How to Bribe a Los Angeles Lawmaker Making Jam from Frozen Fruit Ancient receipts I’m Not Wearing a Mask Arizona Public Media: Behind the Mask A Brief History of Listening In on Police Radios...

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