Saturday Tweets: Trade Your House For an Entire Medieval Italian Village

April 11, 2015

...Simple (@rootsimple) April 6, 2015 Six ways local officials can encourage urban farming: http://t.co/ysRVP84REp — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 11, 2015 Cover Crops Have Got It Covered Part IV: Planting and Managing Cover Crops in Vegetable Gardens http://t.co/a1nF2Xg3SD #aaatopblogs #feedly — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 11, 2015 Bicycle Powered Chili Roaster http://t.co/c2wgqEeOTs via @Natural Building Blog — Root Simple (@rootsimple) Apri...

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For the Locals . . .

Mr. Homegrown

July 12, 2019

Animals, Events, Thoughtstylings

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On that foot sign Alissa Walker, one of my favorite journalists, covers urban design here in Los Angeles. She wrote a great piece on our nieghborhood’s iconic podiatrist sign. Walker agrees with me that we need much more than kitschy signs to mark our neighborhoods. She concludes, We need more reminders of what history predates our presence. We need more streets that are designed to connect us instead of being fast-forwarded through in cars. We n...

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Saturday Tweets: Starlings, Chipmunks and Maple Syrup Season Lessons

Mr. Homegrown

May 13, 2017

Saturday Linkages

...com/RvU0ax5Cii — Lyanda Lynn Haupt (@LyandaHaupt) May 12, 2017 Caught raiding birdseed, chipmunk yields haul https://t.co/QUatfa977T — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 12, 2017 Ghost Lanes: Angled “Scarchitecture” Reveals Historic Urban Roads https://t.co/Bbr8h3AbHp — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 8, 2017 What I Did Wrong This Maple Syrup Season #DIY #homesteading https://t.co/OnXcnVpcbp pic.twitter.com/Ji1xdC6fsD — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) May 12...

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Weekend Linkages: Fall Fig Leaf

Mr. Homegrown

November 14, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Homemade Harissa Sauce Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild A timeline of Food (via Recomendo newsletter) Saturday afternoon Ikea trip simulator Just in case you need a centaur costume Art, Hoax, and Provocation The quiet, monochromatic urban landscapes of Russian painter Vladimir Shinkarev In dystopia news . . . Against artsploitation That strange 1990s swing revival thing An interactive world music map (via Recomendo newsletter)...

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Nithya Raman for LA Council District 4!

Mr. Homegrown

February 24, 2020

Bikes, Thoughtstylings, Transportation

...ouncil more democratic and ways to escape gridlocked traffic. Raman has an urban planning degree from M.I.T., helped start the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition, served as executive director of Time’s Up Entertainment and worked for the city on homeless policy. Frankly, she’s one of those people who have already accomplished what would take me ten lifetimes to get around to. She is much more qualified than the incumbent David Ryu, who has a th...

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