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California Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Book Review

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

Claire Splan’s new book gives gardeners everything they need to know to grow successful edible gardens in California.

It’s ironic to find a beautiful image of heirloom tomatoes on the cover of Claire Splan’s new book about gardening in California. The thought of biting into a fresh, garden-grown tomato gives her the heebie-jeebies. She loves everything else about growing tomatoes, except for eating them.

That kind of candor is refreshing from an author and a nice feature of her book California Fruit & Vegetable Gardening (Cool Springs Press, 2012).

Like other gardeners across the country, I imagine it must be easy to grow a vegetable garden anywhere in California. Aft

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Cocoon House, Resort in Jeju, Korea by Planning Korea

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Seoul-based architectural practice, Planning Korea, completed their design for the Cocoon House, an amazing project of inhabitation for the volcanic island of Jeju. Inspired by the cocoon organisms, the team chose to organize the house around a spheric volume with round windows. The self-sustaining resort that caters for both residential and business aspects. There are three different floor heights on the ground floor.

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Video Profile of Automata Artist Dug North

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Heres a brief article and profile video about MAKE friend and contributor Dug North. He talks about his work in building wooden automata, shows us some examples, and offers a peek at his workshop. Oh my god, his workshop!

Invention of Dreams

Herbs for Tea

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

My tea party garden with whiskey barrel teacups, creamer and sugar bowl.

Here is a list of favorite herbs for tea. You can plant these in a garden bed, perhaps shaped like a tea pot or teacup. Or you could plant them in containers.

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30-Story Building Made Out of Wood by Architect Michael Green

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Architect Michael Green has plans for a 30-story wooden skyscraper in Vancouver, while plans are afoot in Norway and Austria for 17- and 20-story buildings that use wood as the main building material, eschewing steel and concrete. We think we can go higher than 30 stories, says Green. We stopped exploring wood around 100 years ago (with the advent of steel and concrete); now were looking at a whole new system using mass timber products.

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Announcing Our Wholesale Program and New Varieties of Veggies for 2012!

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Announcing Our Wholesale Program and New Varieties of Veggies for 2012!

Buy More and Pay Less Through Our Wholesale Program

In this newsletter we’re excited to announce our new wholesale program that will benefit growers needing lots of plants, as well as those who would like to get together with neighbors or a growing co-op to place an order together. Here’s how it works: you special order plants in quantities of 100; we do the initial planting, germination and thinning, and send you the seedlings in the Spring, just at the right time for planting in your zone. The

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