Stencils as Garden Art

...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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077 Radical Mycology

...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

...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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011 Cleaning, Long Crowing Roosters and Water Storage

...tube playlist of long crowing roosters. Musical break “Banty Rooster Blues” by Charley Patton. Listener Question: Water Storage for Emergencies A correction to the podcast–the Food Safety Advisor is not free to download, but the information on water storage that I reference can be found here. Amazon link to the water storage container we use. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to...

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The Walls Have Eyes

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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