Saturday Tweets: DIY Kayaks, Maps and Dragon Anatomy

August 6, 2016

...ican #Architecture Profession for your foresight and contributions to the #urban form in the USA! pic.twitter.com/sGucLhJX4p — Erik Griswold (@erik_griswold) July 30, 2016 Dragon anatomy for beginners. Yes, you did read that correctly.https://t.co/F06Qanht14 pic.twitter.com/FJzwhiQzJK — Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) July 30, 2016 Good Night Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. Germ. 466 pic.twitter.com/ldauWNgffo — Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) July 30, 2016...

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Root Simple: 2015 in Review

Mr. Homegrown

December 29, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...p. I’m not optimistic about this but I hope to be proved wrong. Honesty in Urban Homesteading We don’t do nearly enough blogging about the many hair brained notions and failed projects that transpire here at the Root Simple Compound and Labs. We did mange to chronicle a few of our shortcomings, such as our lack of a clothes line (Busted: Drying Racks, Clothes Lines and Cheese Puffs), the train wreck that was our summer garden (Our Disasterous Summ...

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Saturday Linkages: Raccoon Robber, Facebook Phreaks and T-Bricks

Mr. Homegrown

March 4, 2017

Saturday Linkages

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...ple) March 4, 2017 California Assembly bill would extend tax break to turn urban lots into farms https://t.co/jbXQ3KMVyW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 4, 2017 T-bricks, the easy way to make an #adobe home https://t.co/2pqQOb93Hp #naturalbuilding — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 4, 2017 Re-purposed Laptop Screen for Raspberry Pi https://t.co/HuqOH6zxGM — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 2, 2017 How to French Polish https://t.co/TttyWoHq9b — Roo...

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The Root Simple 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

Mr. Homegrown

November 23, 2016

Thoughtstylings

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...thought I’d offer some suggested gifts, mostly obtainable online, for the urban homesteady types in your life. Most of the links are to Amazon, and we get a small cut of the proceeds, which helps keep our webmaster in kibble. But First . . . Charity Of course, rather than buying unneeded crap that will only clutter our already messy houses, we could agree to give to a charity instead. This season, due to our national “orange swan” event, Kelly is...

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Saturday Tweets: Date Palms, Clear Ice and Hugs

Mr. Homegrown

May 27, 2017

Saturday Linkages

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...Rochow (@GardenForkTV) May 22, 2017 Paint the Town: 3 More Strangely Legal Urban Street Artworks | Urbanist – https://t.co/ld9AjUHzof — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) May 22, 2017 Hippies are the new hipsters: the Silver Lake shaman: https://t.co/twqIDKLmx7 via @qz — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 22, 2017 A random medieval city layout generator https://t.co/oZX3FkHX2J #procgen pic.twitter.com/YiMCaeQY6X — algoritmic (@algoritmic) May 23, 2017 A Musli...

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