Weekend Linkages: All Play and No Work

July 18, 2021

...Drawing by finish architect Uno Ullberg, 1903. Bicycle powered car All Work and No Play Google Maps Provided Users With a ‘Potentially Fatal’ Hiking Trail on This Mountain Historic “Garden City” is Surprisingly Anti-Gardening Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist Weird fractal Romanesco cauliflowers start life as failed flowers...

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Saturday Tweets: Cockroach Donuts!

Mr. Homegrown

November 18, 2017

Saturday Linkages

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...orkshop) November 16, 2017 Are you a Los Angeles County resident who loves gardening and would like to teach others? Consider becoming a UC Master Gardener Volunteer! Now recruiting for our class of 2018: https://t.co/jdG8VG2ttR @ucce_la @UCMasterGarden #gardeners #losangeles — Rachel Surls (@RachelSurls) November 16, 2017 This is usually what happens. https://t.co/hjezSCcTGV — Brooklyn Spoke (@BrooklynSpoke) November 15, 2017 Thanks to the new wa...

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Weekend Linkages: Goblincore, Casino Bombs and Hoes

Mr. Homegrown

August 1, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Goblincore: the fashion trend that embraces ‘chaos, dirt and mud’ Drivers for Elon Musk’s Loop get a script about their ‘great leader’ Enter the Dragnet FBI Artifact of the Month: Harvey’s Casino Bomb (Via Mark Frauenfelder) How many years until we must act on climate? Zero, say these climate thinkers Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group...

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Olive Harvest 2021

Mr. Homegrown

September 9, 2021

Fermentation, Food, Fruit Trees, Gardening

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...bunch of very tiny holes that are hard to see at first. As the larvae develop the damage becomes obvious. Harvesting and processing olives is one of the more labor intensive gardening tasks around our compound but how cool is it to have a chore the people have been doing for at least 6,000 years?...

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Homegrown Evolution in the LA Times

Mr. Homegrown

May 29, 2008

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...Today’s Los Angeles Times Home and Garden section has a story on Guerrilla gardening, “Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area”. The article mentions our parkway vegetable garden, which consists of two 6-foot square raised beds with two wire obelisks to support beans and tomatoes. We constructed it in October of 2005 and have grown a few season’s worth of crops. Here’s our parkway garden just after putting it in. We installed raised be...

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