Saturday Linkages: Alphabet Birdhouses, Ancient Cheese and the World’s Worst Cookbooks

December 15, 2012

...ides in Tap Water to Rise in Food Allergies http://inhabitat.com/new-research-links-pesticides-in-tap-water-to-rise-in-food-allergies/ … The world’s worst cookbooks: http://yuckylicious.blogspot.com Does Costco Destroy Baby Manatees? MoJo’s Eco-Doom Headline Generator http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/12/mother-jones-fake-headline-generator … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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Alternatives to the Funeral Industrial Complex

Mr. Homegrown

November 29, 2012

Thoughtstylings

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...movement. The monks won their court case. And I have a feeling that as the baby boomer generation begins to grasp its own mortality, we’ll begin to see more changes. Either that or the funeral industry will start marketing fake green burials (they probably have already). What prompted this rant was a comment from a Root Simple reader asking if I knew of any green burials in Southern California. I don’t. If any of you know of any alternative funera...

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The Blue Bear

Mrs. Homegrown

September 9, 2016

Thoughtstylings

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When I was a baby–perhaps for on the occasion of my first or second birthday, no one remembers anymore– my great-grandmother, my mother’s grandmother, gave me this stuffed bear, which she had made herself. Now, almost 50 years later, I am faced with the task of sending Blue Bear off to the landfill. My relationship with Blue Bear is an odd one. He was never one of my favorite stuffed animals, and yet I have kept him with me all these years, while...

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Saturday Tweets: Passover/Holy Saturday Edition

Mr. Homegrown

March 31, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...n) https://t.co/ICOjnBmWNw — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2018 Good urbanism. Kamakura, Japan. Continually inhabited since 8000 B.C. pic.twitter.com/bokyhj8wY3 — Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) March 31, 2018 The best climbers for shade | Alys Fowler https://t.co/mSGg4x4zCD pic.twitter.com/37z1Qx4zDW — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) March 31, 2018 Virginia opossums are the only marsupials native to North America. Just like the offspring...

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A Sasquatch in the Garden?

Mr. Homegrown

November 6, 2020

Gardening

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...ed the strangest object I’ve ever dug up: what appears to be a cast plaster footprint. In my fevered imagination and search for click bait blog headlines, this discovery proves this existence of Sasquatch. Alas, it’s a bit small unless we consider the possibility of a loose baby Sasquatch. More likely, it’s someone’s art project. Some years ago I also uncovered what looked like the beginnings of an attempt to carve a stone bust and I’m guessing th...

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