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The Best Way to Get Bees For Free

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Animals, Bees
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..., I think, is to mix wax and lemongrass oil and paint that on your frames. Used equipment that once held bees is also a powerful attractant. Once bees figure out a good space they will come back to it. Where to put a swarm box Something that happened to us last week will show you how random and inexplicable bees can be when it comes to occupying a swarm box. I had a swarm box up on top of our shed roof, near our neighbor’s orange trees, because be...

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Weekend Tweets: The Orchid Mantis, Self-sufficiency and Self Driving Cars

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Saturday Linkages
...TOOcapd via @wordpressdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 10, 2016 DC Used to Fly the Skull and Cross-Bones to Mark Each Traffic Death https://t.co/XQsKvA5Zx1 via @StreetsblogNet — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 10, 2016 The History Of How Los Angeles Became A City Of Palm Trees https://t.co/aknEUgXWGl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 9, 2016 We don’t need self-driving cars – we need to ditch our vehicles entirely https://t.co/8s2gMKouWc —...

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Front Yard Update: Welcome to Crazy Town

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Back to the Garden, front yard series, Gardening
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...uld be full of surprises, because I’m unfamiliar with many of the plants I used. So I’m figuring out how they grow and what they like and how they get along. It’s all an ongoing experiment. The golden yarrow is the small yellow flower in this picture. Surprise number one is Golden Yarrow (Eriophyllum confertiflorum) which is not a true yarrow at all. This was supposed to be a relatively small plant, maybe one foot high by two feet wide. I planted...

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In Praise of Backward Compatibility

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Appropriate Technology
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...nd the IBM Selectric typewriter. Note that this obsession is not to be confused with Steampunk, despite my past prediction that we’d see the return of the monocle. No, my fantasy world involves a narrow tie, a cocktail in one hand and a heavy phone handset in the other. I’ve written about it many times before but I’d like to repeat one of the things that I admire most about the Western Electric 500 and mid-20th century telephony in general: the pr...

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