Mosaic Artist Jeffrey Bale

Jeffrey Bale is one of my gardening heroes and this video is, in my opinion, mandatory viewing. Bale’s artistic medium is the pebble mosaic and he’s taken his craft to levels not seen since the ancients. Bale spends three months every year traveling the world and searching for inspiration for his work. His astonishingly beautiful and insightful blog chronicles his travels and work. Bale captures what I think is missing in a lot of contemporary ar...

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Saturday Tweets: Cornbread Controversies, 2×4 Furniture and El Niño

...post: https://t.co/UF99bTReUp — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 5, 2016 Gardening information worthless to universities – unless someone else pays for it | Garden Rant https://t.co/1ApTgQ2ws4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 5, 2016 El Niño remains among strongest ever recorded, but California impacts a bit different than anticipated https://t.co/pquLBb9Bwc — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 5, 2016 Ikea for 2x4s: Building gorgeous furnit...

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Chicken of the Woods

...calyptus. The very same mushroom pundits suggest thoroughly cooking all Laetiporus. I can report having consumed a lot of the mushroom we foraged with no ill effects. It was, in fact, one of the most delicious mushrooms I’ve ever consumed. But one should not trust the musings of an aging urban homesteading blogger when foraging for mushrooms. Find yourself a local mushroom nerd or run it past your cats. That said, don’t be too fearful either or yo...

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