Changing the World One Party at a Time

...onth, our neighbor Jennie Cook (our guest on episode 50 of the Root Simple Podcast) hosts a cocktail party for neighbors. She started the party ball rolling by sticking handwritten invites in mailboxes up the block. Usually, around twenty people show up. I’ve come to believe that the most revolutionary acts in our lives are those that reduce separation and loneliness. The philosopher Hannah Arendt called totalitarianism, “organized loneliness.”(1)...

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Weed Cloth Fail

...ss? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. A programming note: my mom is still in the hospital. I’m putting the podcast on hold temporarily and posts will be light for the foreseeable future. I appreciate your thoughts and prayers....

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Atomic Gardening

The always entertaining podcast 99% Invisible has a new episode, “Atom in the Garden” about the forgotten 1950s fad of gardening with radiation. Essentially, it was a crude form of genetic engineering. Plants were zapped with radiation in the hopes of creating useful mutations. While it didn’t work well, it did produce several varieties grown to this day including Rio Star Grapefruit. There was also a strong amateur interest in irradiated seeds s...

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Getting Ourselves Back to the Garden

...w, founder of Environmental Changemakers (and a guest on episode 33 of the podcast) and The Rev. Peter Rood, Rector of Holy Nativity. The garden has since metastasized from the side of the church’s building to the front and worked its way into the fringes of the small parking lot. A large adobe oven was added and bread and pizza baking events and classes take place on the second Saturday of the month. Recently, part of the front lawn became a comm...

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Saturday Tweets: Subterranean Heating Systems, Achocha, Tree Beekeeping and Valentine’s Day Cocktails

.../t.co/0321Pm54jn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 Living Home Podcast 86: Redeem Your Ground – https://t.co/PqUrYU5Pgh via @Shareaholic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 Raspberry Frappe, 1970 –Vintage Cocktail Friday https://t.co/jeodIFxf47 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 6 Flowers to Grow in the Vegetable Garden https://t.co/wcRz7RcI4g — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 A Coffee Renaissance Is Br...

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