An Awareness of What is Missing

...ifteenth century blogging. While a fan of the Internet (we have a blog and podcast, after all), I’ve been growing increasingly concerned about the disruptive potential of our hyper-connected age. Just remember what happened after Gutenberg gave up on fabricating pilgrimage mirrors and took up that printing press idea. Or remember Socrates’ lament over the loss of oral culture to writing in the Phaedrus. It seems to me that mobile computing, social...

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Saturday Tweets: Bats, Modern Coops and Drunk Raccoons

...) June 10, 2015 New GardenFork Radio Podcast talking paper wasps, and two #podcasts : @Podcast4Makers & @rootsimple https://t.co/9JerOJRDtA — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) June 17, 2015 Mini Emergency Survival Kit http://t.co/zjYWEZjDyc — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 16, 2015 Don't gravelscape L.A. http://t.co/hKmWR4vwC4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 16, 2015 Easy Homemade Wooden Tea Cup Without A Lath http://t.co/6DGUgIy870 — Root Simple (...

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Emily, We’ll Miss You

...ist. Los Angeles, we’re losing Emily Green. Green was on episode 20 of our podcast to discuss how to shift the mow, blow and go landscaping paradigm here in LA. Green wrote often about this problem as well as the consequences of climate change in our region. She’s was unafraid to take on LA’s corrupt and hypocritical politicians. Her voice here will be missed and there’s no replacement. I hope she’ll keep up her blog Chance of Rain. If you haven’t...

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Saturday Tweets: Artichokes, Rants and Rare Bee Art

...://t.co/AURlMEUlyw — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 24, 2015 Another great podcast from @GardenForkTV: #bees #weightloss and #BBQ: http://t.co/d2Exgap3op — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 24, 2015 Support #Westwood bike lane #completestreets #greatstreetsLA @lacbc call or email Councilman #PaulKoretz 213.473.7005 paul.koretz@lacity.org — Joel Epstein (@thejoelepstein) July 23, 2015 Pictures: Rare Bees Make Flower-Mud "Sandwiches" http://t.co/5LFMWU...

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Strapping Bee Hives

...save hives. Read the rest of his post here. John Zapf, our digital design podcast guest, came over to help me re-stabilize my own hives and they seem to have recovered (thank you John!). I need to make more substantial and termite proof stands in addition to strapping them. And in the comparison between Langstroth vs. top-bar hives, you can add tipsiness to the list of problems with Lang hives. I think I’m still in the Langtroth camp, but just ba...

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