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Peter and the Farm

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Animals, Thoughtstylings
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...oetic idealism has since soured. For all his candor, he slips into drunken self-destructive habits, cursing the splendors of a pastoral landscape that he has spent decades nurturing. Imbued with an aching tenderness, Tony Stone’s documentary is both haunting and heartbreaking, a mosaic of its singular subject’s transitory memories and reflections—however funny, tragic, or angry they may be. Peter and the Farm will be in theaters and available on d...

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077 Radical Mycology

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Gardening, Mushrooms, Podcasts
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Our guest this week is Peter McCoy. Peter is a self-taught mycologist with 15 years of accumulated study and experience, Peter is an original founder of Radical Mycology, a grassroots organization and movement that teaches the skills needed to work with mushrooms and other fungi for personal, societal, and ecological resilience. Peter is the lead cultivation expert for the Amazon Mycorenewal Project and Open Source Ecology and the primary author...

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Tolkien and Trees

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Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings, Trees
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...on p. 66, was written off more or less as it stands, with an effect on my self (except for labour pains) almost like reading some one else’s work. And I like Ents now because they do not seem to have anything to do with me. I daresay something had been going on in the ‘unconscious’ for some time, and that accounts for my feeling throughout, especially when stuck, that I was not inventing but reporting (imperfectly) and had at times to wait till ‘...

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Saturday Tweets: Pawpaws, Tiny Apartments and the Wet Prince of Bel Air

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Saturday Linkages
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...co/WTSNlDSicN — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 Will US DOT’s Self-Driving Car Rules Make Streets Safe for Walking and Biking? https://t.co/hNkI5JfGE1 via @StreetsblogUSA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 Garden artist Jeffrey Bale visits Oaxaca: https://t.co/7lOu8CFu35 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 Who is the wet prince of Bel Air? https://t.co/dTm2r76TOU — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 22, 2016 Tw...

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Is Honey the Same as Sugar?

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Animals, Bees
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...rch of Dr. May Berenbaum, an entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Berenbaum’s specialty, for many years, was the interaction of plants and insects. Her interest in bees began with her frustration with the common idea that honey is nutritionally indistinguishable from sugar. In her presentation, in chart after chart, she showed the huge difference in the biochemistry of different honey varietals. Take, for instance, antio...

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