Book Review: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

May 23, 2016

...The Intelligence of All Kinds of Life. I remember first listening to this podcast while walking around our neighborhood one evening at twilight. As she spoke about the intelligence of all living things and the importance of our relationship with plants, how we are meant to love and live in a respectful, reciprocal relationship with the natural world, tears came to my eyes because the things she was saying were the things I have always believed–al...

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Federico Tobon’s Handcrafted Password Generator

Mr. Homegrown

June 26, 2017

Design

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...avorite artist-makers. He was a guest on episode 8 of the Opposable Thumbs podcast, a show which issues a creative challenge for their guests to complete. Federico had to tackle the topic of “crafting security.” His response was to make this beautiful wooden object that, when manipulated, generates strong, multilingual passwords. Federico’s inspiration was an xlcd comic that has some excellent password security advice: On the podcast and his blog,...

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More on Federico Tobon

Mr. Homegrown

August 28, 2017

Animals, Bees, Cats, Podcasts

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...terviewing the always creative and ever resourceful Federico Tobon for the podcast. Federico put up a blog post going into more detail on some of the things we talked about during the podcast, specifically the type of CNC router he uses (the ShapeOko 2 ), his social media rules, a video proving that he’s trained his cats (!), his hand sewn bike messenger bag and a shot of the LA Eco Village rooftop beehive. We talked for hours before and after rec...

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A Celebration of Craft

Mr. Homegrown

September 14, 2017

Bread, Food, Gardening, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening

...tomato farmer and breeder Fred Hempel who was a guest on episode 79 of our podcast. Like Miller, Hempel has a humility that goes along with a sincere engagement with the natural world. Like Miller he’s more than happy to discuss his craft. A third person I met at the festival is Alice Doyle, owner of Log House Plants a wholesale nursery in Eugene Oregon. In her lecture she went alphabetically through a list of edible plants she thought were intere...

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Saturday Tweets: Wild Azaleas, DIY Neutra Chairs and Hot Dog Water

Mr. Homegrown

June 30, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...e — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 26, 2018 In addition to the Root Simple Podcast, I also record and edit the St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral Podcast. Mostly sermons but the newest episode is an interview with one of the Deans on the Gospel of Mark. Subscribe here: https://t.co/CVSG1Bpt4k @stjohnsla pic.twitter.com/us176HHbbt — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 30, 2018 Cat in a fancy dress [BnF, Latin 1178, 15thc.] pic.twitter.com/Nz3TiTTTMe — Damie...

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