Saturday Tweets: Post-Earth Day

April 27, 2019

...Desert https://t.co/6bZTaRUG1i — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 23, 2019 Self-proclaimed LA savior #RickCaruso doesn’t know we already have a rail line that connects DTLA to Westside & runs parallel to 10. Of course, @nytimes @tarangoNYT doesn’t correct his stupidity. @expolineledger @awalkerinLA @cmonstah @metrolosangeles https://t.co/0P50Rw6OX0 — Neal Broverman (@nbroverman) April 22, 2019 #EarthDay reminds us markets always count selectively...

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Why I’m Growing Vegetables in a Straw Bale

Mr. Homegrown

May 29, 2019

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...y gardening guru with a book: biointensive, biodynamic, raised beds, pots, self-watering containers, straw bales and just plain old by-the-book science-based, extension service advice. Results have ranged from moderately successful to moderately tragic–mostly moderately tragic. Over the years, our vegetable garden has shrunk from ambitious proportions to a tiny 3-foot by 8-foot raised bed filled with tired and expensive potting soil. This past win...

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Saturday Tweets: Big and Trainy

Mr. Homegrown

August 3, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...often. Cities reordered to a potentially “antiseptic” level to accommodate self-driving cars. This is what AV industry reps are telling the New York Times they envision. Pretty alarming stuff 😱https://t.co/27brdgWAUa — Streetsblog USA (@StreetsblogUSA) August 2, 2019 Happy #Caturdaypic.twitter.com/MQGfUeTWmZ — Larry the Cat, Esq. (@Number10cat) August 3, 2019 No surprise that the @LosFelizLedger, which continues to make the false claim that the Ro...

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Starbucks Moderne

Mr. Homegrown

December 4, 2019

Design

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...g a face? Is this a stab at corporate cubism? Or is this a mask? Is this a self-portrait of the artist who portrayed themselves wearing a mask as a kind of plea for help or a way of saying, “don’t blame me for this ugly thing?” Kelly actually started drawing a copy of this masked figure in order to understand it but couldn’t figure out what it was about. The 1990s era curly chair in the background means that this hapless artist is probably of my,...

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We are all gardeners

Mrs. Homegrown

April 2, 2015

Back to the Garden, Gardening, Thoughtstylings

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...is not welcome. This landscape is extractive by nature, meaning it is not self-sustaining, but reliant on biological and chemical inputs stolen from other locations, from fertilizer to weed killer to the gasoline and electricity needed to run the tools necessary to to keep the landscape trim, and in some climates, the water needed to keep the grass green. It is expensive. It is life-denying. The New Way: The Loving Landscape The Loving Landscape...

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