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Straw Bale Garden Tour Part II

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Gardening, Straw Bale Gardening, Vegetable Gardening, Videos
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...video we take a tour of our straw bale garden as it appears this week. The vegetables varieties you see growing are Tromboncino squash, Lunga di Napoli squash (growing up into a native bush), Matt’s Wild Cherry tomato, Celebrity tomato, eggplant and Swiss chard. And just to take down my smugness a notch I also included a shot of an unsuccessful cucumber plant. Other than the cucumber, though, this is one of the most productive vegetable gardens I’...

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Sweet Potatoes for Breakfast

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Food
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...ar bear liver (should you have that golden opportunity), but the worst the vegetable form can do is turn you vaguely orange ( a revertible condition) and eating 1 sweet potato a day is not going to do that. Incidentally, fat makes some of sweet potato’s nutrients more accessible, so you have every excuse now to eat those babies with butter, or roast them in oil. 4) I like getting this big hit of nutrition first thing in the morning. It’s sort of l...

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Saturday Tweets: Micro Campers, The Whole Earth Catalog and a Post-Antibiotics Future

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Saturday Linkages
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...6FB — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 28, 2015 Head Of The Episcopal Church Says It's 'Sinful' To Ignore Climate Change http://t.co/qEmnNBY1E5 via @HuffPostRelig — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2015 Building Healthy Soils in Vegetable Gardens: Cover Crops Have Got It Covered Part III: http://t.co/UB9ArF0meh #aaatopblogs #feedly — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 4, 2015 "The world is a place where they make you do stupid things."...

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Frida Paints Luther

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Fruit Trees, Gardening, Thoughtstylings
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...1930s. Kahlo liked to blur the boundaries between human consciousness, the vegetable and the animal. In her portrait of Burbank she touches on themes of life, death and transformation. You could write a book about what’s going on in this painting. Burbank’s work lives on inour backyards and orchards in the form of the fruit varieties he developed. I’ll view his Santa Rosa plum in our front yard differently after encountering Kahlo’s virtuosic pain...

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