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Silver Lake Farms

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Urban Farming
This week Homegrown Revolution visited Tara Kolla the founder of Silver Lake Farms. Kolla runs a ambitious and beautiful flower farm on a medium sized lot right in the heart of Los Angeles. She specializes in freshly cut sweet peas, but also grows anemones and ranunculus and sells them at the Echo Park, Silver Lake, Atwater Village, and Los Angeles Arts District farmer’s markets. Kolla believes in the power of the local, and only sells at farmers...

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Age of Apocalypse

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Age of Limits, Thoughtstylings
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...ion that seems beyond the capacity of humans at this stage in our cultural evolution, anyway. So in lieu of doing the actual hard work of fixing these problems in the present, we fantasize instead about life afterward. The crisis of global warming morphs into the fantasy of living off the grid. The treat of a terrorist attack on our office tower leads us to purchase an emergency personal parachute for easy egress, and to wonder how far up the org...

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Saturday Tweets: RIP Mary Oliver

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Saturday Linkages
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...tter.com/m3xhIUYBIc — Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) January 13, 2019 "Evolution may have less to do with rising above one’s peers than learning to get along with more of them." The first #TeamHuman excerpt has been published on Medium! https://t.co/B3fA5JR7uo And yes: get the book! — douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) January 14, 2019 These LA teachers striking against privatization + demanding smaller classrooms/more support for their students is...

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Getting Hardscaping Right

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Garden Design, Gardening, Mistakes
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...hey were craned in above the house. It was clear that at some point in the evolution of her small backyard garden, she bit the bullet and got bold with the hardscaping. While there will be no craning at our house, the point is a good one. Get the hardscaping done first, do it right and be bold. Putting plants in first and then building things like decks and seating areas is a recipe for disaster. Any construction project, even carefully done, caus...

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A Tensegrity Table

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Design
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...alled at the Hirshhorn in Washington D.C. While more of a traditionalist when it comes to architectural forms, tensegrities make a nice addition to the Hoemgrown Evolution design vocabulary and I’m contemplating a tensegrity bean trellis for the backyard . . ....

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