Saturday Tweets: Dogs, Land Use, Kale and Rocket Cats

August 4, 2018

Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression: https://t.co/No2cjEZ9dO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 4, 2018 Cities in CA inland areas must make street tree changes to adapt to future climate. @ucanr research finds that trees now in #Fresno, #Ukiah, #Stockton and others expected to do poorly in 2099. https://t.co/Bpi42R6uNo pic.twitter.com/RR5lpIVCOl — Jeannette Warnert (@jwarnert) August 3, 2018 #Breaking – About 100 goats are on the loose...

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Coming Together by Being Apart

Mr. Homegrown

March 20, 2020

Thoughtstylings

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...a crisis our moral instinct tells us to come together. Staying apart feels selfish. It’s counter-intuitive that the best expression of community right now is a lack of community. To keep everyone safe we must self-isolate. We must also convince our friends and relatives who are still in denial that they also must stay at home for the good of all. One bit of solace came from listening to a podcast about the 1918 Spanish Flu. All the struggles we’re...

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Cat Litter Compost, Installment #3

Mrs. Homegrown

August 12, 2013

Animals, Cats, Composting, Gardening

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...esent in cat waste can’t balance the heavy carbon loads of the litter by itself. (Note: You should be an experienced composter before you try composting cat litter, as I’ve warned before, and so you will of course know what I mean by all this talk of carbon and nitrogen–but for those of you who are incorrigible, or simply curious, nitrogen sources you might add to your pile include urine, natural seed meal fertilizers, dried alfalfa, fresh grass c...

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Ladies of Manure 2013 Calendar

Mrs. Homegrown

December 10, 2012

Composting, Humanure, Thoughtstylings

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...“Nope. Not even if civilization is burning down around my ears.” “Note to self: Never visit these people at home.” “They want me to keep poop around the house. Poop. Around my house.” “Hmm, I’m sensing some sort of potty-training trauma here. Definitely an unhealthy anal obsession.” “Funny, they don’t look like hippies.” It’s an hard nut to crack, the poop nut. This environmental non-profit called The Fertile Earth Foundation is going about in a...

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Did Kelly follow her 2012 resolutions?

Mrs. Homegrown

December 31, 2012

Miscellaneous

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...n’t happen. If I had a dollar for every daily schedule I’ve composed for myself I wouldn’t have to worry about work at all. I sing the sad ballad of the freelancer. -Accomplish my “yucky list” this month: switching banks, upgrading my RAM, getting a new passport, and making appointments for a physical, a dental exam and an eye exam. (In terms of engaging with the medical establishment, I prefer to behave as if though the zombie apocalypse has alre...

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