Saturday Tweets: Eating Crickets and Making Coffee

..., according to new research. Via @keatleygarvey http://t.co/jfoJVN5JNB — UCUrbanAg (@UCUrbanAg) October 16, 2015 Banana Spook Cake – A Vintage Halloween Recipe Re-Run http://t.co/zYOyLPuW6p — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 15, 2015 Top 33 Coffee Projects http://t.co/eWy4mIES5L — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 15, 2015 Sitting for long periods doesn't make death more imminent, study suggests http://t.co/JoT6NiV3x8 — Root Simple (@rootsimp...

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Saturday Tweets That Should Have Been Posted on Saturday but Are, Instead, Posted on Sunday Evening Because I Was at a Met Opera Telecast (Dialogues of the Carmelites) Followed by a Wedding and Was Too Tired by the End of the Day to Sit at a Computer and Come up with Clever Titles

...ent use of space for moving people in a city.#transit #bicycles #walkable #urbanism pic.twitter.com/t37RCA3Xpa — Taras Grescoe (@grescoe) May 6, 2019 Somewhat ironic to share this via the Twitters but here you go–an account of radically "switching off" https://t.co/TrtRJo0JKm — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 9, 2019 Have you filled out the CD4 Rowena survey? Help protect the safety improvements and bike lanes on Rowena and even make it and the surr...

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Saturday Tweets: Passover/Holy Saturday Edition

...n) https://t.co/ICOjnBmWNw — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2018 Good urbanism. Kamakura, Japan. Continually inhabited since 8000 B.C. pic.twitter.com/bokyhj8wY3 — Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) March 31, 2018 The best climbers for shade | Alys Fowler https://t.co/mSGg4x4zCD pic.twitter.com/37z1Qx4zDW — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) March 31, 2018 Virginia opossums are the only marsupials native to North America. Just like the offspring...

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Homegrown Evolution in Chicago

...ter with: nettlesting@yahoo.com Erik will lead an informal presentation on Urban Homesteading in Los Angeles – focusing on his and his wife’s homegrown systems of adventurous experimentation of chickens, growing, greywater, brewing and more – some successful, some not so much! Copies of The Urban Homestead will be for sale. Many thanks to Nancy Klehm for arranging these events! See her website Spontaneous Vegetation for more info on other events a...

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Urban Livestock and Bikes!

...bbir Siraj Urban Livestock Workshop Homegrown Evolution will be hosting an urban livestock workshop at our humble abode in Silver Lake on March 1st from 1-4pm. We’ll be talkin’ chicken, permaculturist Joan Stevens will be rapping about rabbits and Leonardo Chalupowicz will share his recent experience of becoming a “backwards” beekeeper. We’ll discuss how to integrate these animals into your backyard and how they can serve multiple purposes beyond...

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