Saturday Tweets: Audio Cassettes, Melting Astroturf and Sharing the Road

September 5, 2015

...er 1, 2015 Five LAUSD high schools are forced to replace melting all-weather fields http://t.co/KvRuaJJAYE — meganpanatier (@MeganPanatier) September 1, 2015 Meet the *real* future of transport: The Non-Polluting, Autonomy-Building, Self-Driving Vehicle. pic.twitter.com/UI2cjhnjQY — Taras Grescoe (@grescoe) August 18, 2015 Vacations for grumps. #HatTip to #lajuliag >> One-Star Yelp Reviews of National Parks http://t.co/r5U67qSRN1 — bisquiat (@bisq...

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Planting in a Post-Wild World

Mrs. Homegrown

October 19, 2015

Back to the Garden, Garden Design, Gardening

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...with no tall species present. Woodland/shrubland relates to the typical suburban yard where trees and shrubs mix with lawn. The forest is for those lucky enough to have land with stands of trees. Planting in Post-Wild World is not a simple how-to book. In fact, there’s nothing simple about it at all– but it is very clear. Its goals are ambitious, and while it might seem like it was written for designers, it can be used by a determined home gardene...

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Our new front yard: history

Mrs. Homegrown

November 11, 2015

Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening

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...ng their own landscaping, I’m following through on that promise. In a more selfish way, I like to have records like this of both our actions and our thought processes, because inevitably Erik and I will forget when we did things– and sometimes even why we did them! In the unlikely event you want to learn the history of our front yard while you drink your coffee, read on. Considering the site First, a brief description of the site. Our front yard c...

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Black Friday Book Suggestions

Mr. Homegrown

November 27, 2015

Reviews

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...thing for someone, and books make great presents, especially for do-it-yourselfer types. With that in mind, here’s a round-up of our favorite books of the year: Wild Drinks & Cocktails: Handcrafted Squashes, Shrubs, Switchels, Tonics, and Infusions to Mix at Home by Emily Han. Emily visited us on our podcast just a couple of weeks ago. Wild Drinks is a really fun book which teaches you how to wildcraft both fancy artisanal cocktails and unusual no...

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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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