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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....
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...
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...
Surface Walk with Nance Klehm Saturday February 11th
Our friend Nance Klehm (and guest on episode 38 of the Root Simple Podcast) is in town! Here’s the 411: Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 2–4 pm Bowtie Project 2780 W. Casitas Ave Los Angeles, CA 90039 TICKETS $30 Ecologist and professional forager Nance Klehm will lead a walk at the Bowtie Project exploring the human uses and ecological functions of the native and spontaneous vegetation at the site. On this walk we will investigate how the vegetation relates t...