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2013 in Review Part II

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Thoughtstylings
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...and, other than harvesting tomatoes, summer here is not the best time for gardening. Time to contemplate closed vs. open floor plans and catch a crappy Hollywood movie. “Crappy Hollywood” is a redundancy, of course, as all Hollywood movies are crappy. September Mrs. Homegrown complained about my flour storage mess. I just bought a Komo mill and so this mess should diminish in the next few months. In the further interest of cleanliness, I blogged...

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Composting: Nothing is Wasted

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Back to the Garden, Composting, Gardening
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...obably predicted, is to suggest that we deal with our guilt and our rotten vegetables by first, trying not to be so wasteful, and second, by composting, because spoiled food is not the end of a journey, it’s simply the beginning of a new journey. O, Compost, my Compost! It’s hard not to get sappy about my love for compost. If I could write a poem to compost, I would. And I don’t think I’m alone in my compostophilia. Many clear-headed, rational ind...

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Saturday Linkages: Don’t seek the truth – just drop your opinions

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Saturday Linkages
...latimes.com/la-heb-fencing-cogitive-improvement-20111230,0,1166016.story … Gardening Garden planter turns out to be Roman antique: http://boingboing.net/2012/10/12/garden-planter-turns-out-to-be.html … Best Reporting on the Space Shuttle Tree Debacle Science Center Given Approval to Remove Nearly 400 Trees to Make Way for Shuttle http://la.streetsblog.org/2012/09/18/science-center-given-approval-to-remove-nearly-400-trees-to-make-way-for-shuttle/#...

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047 Done is Better Than Perfect

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Animals, Bees, Food, Gardening, Podcasts
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...k Radio episode 377). Eric covers all kinds of DIY topics: everything from gardening, to beekeeping to slow cooking to, well, just about anything you can think of. He also produces an excellent podcast. During our interview we discuss: Raised beds Hoop houses Crawl space vents for hoop houses Foraging for garlic mustard Bread Earth and Fire ebook Decluttering Beekeeping Honeybeesuite.com Mite treatment Keeping bees in the winter Mudsongs.org That...

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Saturday Tweets: Cockroach Donuts!

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Saturday Linkages
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...orkshop) November 16, 2017 Are you a Los Angeles County resident who loves gardening and would like to teach others? Consider becoming a UC Master Gardener Volunteer! Now recruiting for our class of 2018: https://t.co/jdG8VG2ttR @ucce_la @UCMasterGarden #gardeners #losangeles — Rachel Surls (@RachelSurls) November 16, 2017 This is usually what happens. https://t.co/hjezSCcTGV — Brooklyn Spoke (@BrooklynSpoke) November 15, 2017 Thanks to the new wa...

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