087 Foraging Controversy with Lisa Novick

June 15, 2016

Food, Foraging, Gardening, Native Plants, Podcasts

...tour Theodore Payne plant list Native gardening mistakes Edible California natives California natives in pots Hooker’s Evening Primrose in bloom. Photo: Lisa Novick. 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 to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. A downloadable version of this podcast is he...

Read…

Rats

Mr. Homegrown

November 30, 2006

Pests

...mice and rats, but unfortunately those same cats are also good at catching native birds. Now if we weren’t in enough trouble for advocating bad-ass rat traps, we’ll get in even more trouble for suggesting that folks keep their cats indoors. Indoor cats will catch the rodents, they won’t kill the native wildlife and they’ll live longer by not getting hit by cars. We would have a cat ourselves if it weren’t for our doberman who would, unfortunately,...

Read…

Our new front yard, part 2: theory

Mrs. Homegrown

November 13, 2015

Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening

12 Comments

...didn’t mind the prison-yard aesthetic of those heavy walls. The dream alternative would be stacked river rock retaining walls, done by professionals, which was out of our budget. We thought about learning how to do stacked rock on our own, but our local supply yard’s rock was both ugly and expensive. We waffled over all of this and many other alternatives for for a good while, then finally threw up our hands and gave up trying to be responsible. W...

Read…

Backyard and Backwards Beekeeping

Mr. Homegrown

April 16, 2021

Animals, Bees

6 Comments

...nciples-of-beekeeping-backwards.365763/ Xerces society: for information on native bees and how to provide habitat. https://www.xerces.org/ YouTube Backwards Beekeepers how-to videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL23D3FtWNSvrs1NDKjpDWolmVfDgcJTKX Books Save the Bees with Natural Backyard Hives: The Easy and Treatment-Free Way to Attract and Keep Healthy Bees by Rob and Chelsea McFarland The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beekeeping...

Read…

Reader Feedback About Facebook

Mr. Homegrown

March 2, 2018

Thoughtstylings

8 Comments

...only shows cat related content. Others mentioned open source Facebook alternatives such as Diaspora and Mastodon but I have a hard time believing that these services can compete with Facebook and they don’t address the core problem: social media’s promotion of isolation over community. Along the lines of building an entirely different internet Adam says, I deleted my FB account in 2010. I use something called Hubzilla to connect to other people. I...

Read…