I Made an Enzo Mari Table and So Can You

October 24, 2023

Design

...s fantasy plays out in the furniture I’ve build for the inside of the house. Such is the fate of attempts at revolutionary design within our post-modern age. Everything gets subsumed within a vast parade of styles and one can easily imagine this table on sale at Urban Outfitters at your local mall. Mari, who we lost to COVID in 2020, had the genius and grace to acknowledge the contradictions in his own work while not letting this discourse get in...

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Damned Figs!

Mr. Homegrown

March 14, 2008

Gardening

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...r of . . . Styrofoam packing materials. We tried everything from drying to making jam with these accursed figs but never got satisfactory results. During the day flies laid their larvae in the fruits yielding gooey masses that would drop to the ground to provide rotting fig feasts to visiting rats and possums. We replaced the fig tree with the Valencia orange tree in the photo above. One of the most important lessons we’ve learned in our ten years...

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Jujube and Goji Fever

Mr. Homegrown

January 26, 2009

Food, Gardening

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...We ended up planting them elsewhere in the yard, since our black walnut area is a bit too shady, and we’ll report back on how they do. Supposedly the leaves are edible as well, for those of you keeping score on the alternate uses of fruits and vegetables. Note that the Papaya tree nursery is by appointment only and can be reached at (818) 363-3680. No mail order except for miracle fruit berries (see those strange berries and some video of the Papa...

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Physalis pruinosa a.k.a. “Ground Cherry”

Mr. Homegrown

April 30, 2007

Gardening

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...he best arguments for growing your own food–access to flavorful and exotic fruits and vegetables. The very similar Cape Gooseberry (Physalis perviana) is commercially cultivated in many places in the world but is not considered an important crop. It is most commonly used in jams and pies. According to the Horticulture department of Purdue University, In England, the cape gooseberry was first reported in 1774. Since that time, it has been grown the...

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Saturday Linkages: Paleo Flour, Viking Tents and Chinese Cabbage as the New Kale

Mr. Homegrown

September 19, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...— Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 18, 2015 Startling animated MRIs of fruits and vegetables via @BoingBoing http://t.co/a7BavXmdvN — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 18, 2015 Tent Porn – Dual Viking Tent. This is pretty damn… http://t.co/zm3C72NKKy — Prepper Chicks (@PrepperChicks) September 16, 2015 Toilet Garden http://t.co/ulBQ0q4pe9 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 16, 2015 Is your honey cut with sugar syrup? http://t.co/SzuMwM3xs...

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