As Usual: a Smoky, Noisy 4th

July 6, 2025

...Ginsberg’s thoughts on Independence Day, written in the 50s but still remarkably prescient. See also Charles Taylor’s book A Secular Age starting around page 46 for a lengthier history of misrule days and their historical consequences....

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Spam Poetry Sunday

Mrs. Homegrown

June 26, 2016

Picture Sundays

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...us is the ultimate purpose of these spam comments. This one was placed on our announcement for our upcoming coffee roasting class (not a popular or highly linked post), and linked to a page for a restaurant which is obviously just a place holder, in that it has no content or history or graphic design. And who the heck is Janet?...

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How to get free mulch

Mrs. Homegrown

May 4, 2015

Gardening

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...sequester carbon. And it’s all free. What’s not to love? Check out abouttrees.com Or go straight to the Kickstarter page....

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Fermentology: Mini Seminars About Cultured Food

Mr. Homegrown

April 8, 2020

Fermentation, Food

...d will be recorded and available afterwards on the Applied Ecology Youtube page. Registration here! Follow us on twitter or facebook for updates. A closing note: I’m fortunate to be able to stay at home, with plenty of food, and watch fermentation seminars. Many are not so lucky. I have a friend and neighbor who runs several farmers’ markets through a non-profit called SEE-LA. They are soliciting donations to support families sheltering in place i...

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Sheltered

Mr. Homegrown

July 23, 2020

Design

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A page from Shelter. Maker, builder, publisher and author Lloyd Kahn left a great comment on my rambling review of the documentary Spaceship Earth. Lloyd said (in reference to the title of Buckminster Fuller’s 1969 book Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth), “In 1973, in our book Shelter, I wrote “Calling Earth a spaceship is like stepping out into a clear night in New Mexico and saying, “Wow, it looks just like the planetarium.” If you aren’t fa...

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