077 Radical Mycology

March 2, 2016

...l, and ecological resilience. Peter is the lead cultivation expert for the Amazon Mycorenewal Project and Open Source Ecology and the primary author behind Radical Mycology, a nearly 700-page book on accessible mycology and mushroom cultivation. During the podcast we discuss: What are fungi? How to cultivate edible and medicinal mushrooms How to establish a mushroom bed in your garden Tempeh Peter’s cultivation how-to videos Growing mushrooms in a...

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Saturday Tweets: A Difficult Week

Mr. Homegrown

November 10, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...POkquMHNHZ — Corey Pein 😃🤑😐😩💀 (@coreypein) November 5, 2018 Why you should store your plastic wrap in the freezer https://t.co/topSbAc6sr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 7, 2018 An overworked US postal worker shares what life is like delivering Amazon packages https://t.co/w46LGmMAwn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 5, 2018 This brings back memories. #editing #1990s pic.twitter.com/gnvshQiTYY — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 7, 2018 T...

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The Walls Have Eyes

Mr. Homegrown

October 12, 2018

Design

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I was at the “Big Orange Store” as Eric of GardenFork calls it, looking for shelf hardware. Using their app (because human employees can be hard to find) I searched for “hidden shelf.” I was looking for something like this: The app, however, autocompleted “hidden camera.” That’s odd, I thought, and followed the link. It turns out that Home Depot has your pervy spying needs covered. There’s the “LizaCam USB Wall Plug with Hidden IP Camera.” The “R...

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Stencils as Garden Art

Mr. Homegrown

August 7, 2013

Garden Design, Gardening

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...me ancient deity. Try to source one of those busts from your local big box store or Amazon and you’ll find some really scary stuff. I can’t afford those 18th century busts, so I decided to try a two dimensional alternative: stencils. Above is my first primitive attempt–Seneca, spray painted on a chunk of concrete and propped up against a palm tree in the parkway. A blog post over at Green Roof Growers alerted me to the far more impressive stencils...

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Go Plant a Million Trees

Mr. Homegrown

September 13, 2019

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Reviews

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...ast. Silver is the author of Trees of Power: Ten Essential Aboreal Allies (Amazon, library). The book celebrates the power of trees to feed us and solve a lot of the world’s problems including climate change and soil erosion. In the book Silver makes the provocative suggestion that we might all be better off with a greater emphasis on tree crops instead of clearing land for monotonous fields of wheat, corn and soybeans. He has an interventionist,...

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