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Kelly and I return this week to discuss a recent talk I gave to a bunch of Master Gardeners about water harvesting and encouraging wildness in our gardens. On the second part of the podcast Kelly discusses the process of learning how to sew. During the first part of the podcast Erik mentions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJ0OHWl3b8
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<li>Jacques de Vaucanson’s 1739 mechanical pooping duck</li>
<li>A University of California study, <a href="http://californiaagriculture.ucanr.edu/landingpage.cfm?article=ca.v065n04p197&amp;fulltext=yes">Hedgerows enhance beneficial insects on farms in California’s Central Valley</a></li>
<li>The <a href="http://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/arboretum_all_stars.aspx">UC Davis Arboretum Allstar</a> list</li>
<li>Piet Oudolf’s book <a href="https://rootsimple.wpengine.com/2013/05/piet-oudolfs-enhanced-nature/">Planting: A New Persepctive</a></li>
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In the sewing portion of the podcast, Kelly talks about:
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<li><a href="https://www.sew-la.com/">Sew L.A.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/174196721X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=174196721X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=homegrrevolu-20&amp;linkId=WL4EZJDJMFBPZ2LX">Second Skin: Choosing and Caring for Textiles and Clothing</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=homegrrevolu-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=174196721X" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></li>
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A podcast about vegetable gardening, food preservation, home economics and DIY living. Hosted by Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne, authors of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World.