Your Chicken Questions Answered

August 12, 2014

...Image: Hencam.com. I’ll be interviewing poultry expert, author and HenCam.com blogger Terry Golson for the Root Simple Podcast this Thursday morning. If you have any chicken questions you’d like me to ask leave them in the comments for this post....

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Is Ham Radio Useful?

Mr. Homegrown

March 31, 2014

Preparedness

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...ly radio service) frequencies–all for $40–the BaoFeng UV-5RE. The Survival Podcast did a whole episode on radios you should have in an emergency and the BaoFeng features prominently in the pantheon of zombie apocalypse communications equipment discussed on that show. I can’t speak from experience about the BaoFeng as I have a Yaesu FT-60. But, combined with a battery operated AM/FM radio, the BaoFeng would make a nice addition to your emergency su...

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Realities in my past

Mr. Homegrown

December 13, 2013

Thoughtstylings

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...From Logotherapy in a Nutshell, an essay. Thanks to KMO for reading this passage on his always enlightening C-Realm podcast....

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Free Online Gardening Lectures from the University of California

Mr. Homegrown

October 13, 2014

Gardening

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...server conference put on by the University of California Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (I became a Master Food Preserver back in 2012 thanks to a truly awesome training program put on by our local Extension Service and taught by Ernest Miller, a guest on episode 14 of our podcast). I’ll share some of what I learned at the conference in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I thought I’d link to a bunch of Master Gardener lectures fr...

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Hundertwasser: Architecture as Spontaneous Vegetation

Mr. Homegrown

October 28, 2014

Design

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One of my favorite podcasts, 99% Invisible, just did an episode about Austrian outsider architect Tausendsassa Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (“Multi-Talented Peace-Filled Rainy Day Dark-Colored Hundred Waters” in German). Hundertwasser viewed straight lines as an affront to both God and creativity. He was also a big fan of humanure, mold (!) and, just like Alexandro Jodorowsky, did the occasional speaking gig completely nude. Li...

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