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

December 9, 2017

...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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Saturday Tweets: From Zines to Hedgehogs

Mr. Homegrown

May 12, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...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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138 Erics Gone Wild

Mr. Homegrown

July 3, 2020

Podcasts

...rk using a bonding agent such as Weld-Crete De-cluttering the garage A big gardening problem Building a boat Gavin Atkin Ultra Simple Boat Building 17 Plywood Boats Anyone Can Build Storer Boat Plans Fixing a canoe Insulation and new windows You can also find Eric on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe t...

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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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