Saturday Tweets: From Zines to Hedgehogs

May 12, 2018

...Alys Fowler https://t.co/5ZDthQa7H2 pic.twitter.com/yOTRrsvH6V — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) May 6, 2018 ‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job https://t.co/q8RhMn391u — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2018 Humility in science communication https://t.co/NAPo2gyqXP via @2020science — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 12, 2018 Monkey riding Snailman [KB, Thott 291 8º, 15th c.] pic.twitter.com/avTLZxyKTM — Damien Kempf...

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Saturday Tweets: Weeds, Bees and General Crankiness

Mr. Homegrown

June 2, 2018

Saturday Linkages

Weed Life #permaculture #gardening #weeds #savetheweeds #soilhealth #dandelions #weedshavefeelingstoo pic.twitter.com/xsAz2Ktjs1 — Rascality Now (@rascalitynow) May 30, 2018 Count your bees with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning https://t.co/1tjD8uCaYb — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 1, 2018 The Silence of the Bugs https://t.co/rdRKfse7JW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 27, 2018 “America was just wiped out.” @nicolatwilley reports from the “Cl...

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The Luddite’s Moonshot

Mr. Homegrown

June 4, 2018

Thoughtstylings

24 Comments

...table wasteland, here’s a list of things they can help with: Mediterranean gardening with perennial food crops. Mammalian garden invasions, i.e. those infernal squirrels/raccoons/skunks. Meal preparation for busy people. I realize the tech bros have taken up this problem with services such as Blue Apron and Hello Fresh. But I think there’s a better way we can do this at home without the shipping and packaging. Preventing food waste in the home. In...

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Stickley’s #603 Taboret

Mr. Homegrown

March 14, 2018

Design

17 Comments

...at with screen time averaging 10 hours a day for the average American, perhaps 2018 is the year we all might consider taking up a few arcane, overly complex and silly projects. It could be sewing, gardening or any other activity that takes us away from our phones and slows us down. Now I’ve got to get away from this screen and start cracking on that finish . . ....

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Saturday Tweets: Crab Apples, Climate Change and a Bear Parade

Mr. Homegrown

December 9, 2017

Saturday Linkages

...Alys Fowler https://t.co/1i3EOq4lBj pic.twitter.com/3eL0688yqT — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) December 9, 2017 How to make a penny floor or tabletop: https://t.co/yMciogCa5z — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 7, 2017 Ecomodernism: the belief that all we need to solve our ecological predicament is more technology. synonym: techno-optimism. Comforting, as it implies: (1) individually, no change required; (2) collectively, we’re already h...

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