A few days ago, I posted something here about a group in San Francisco that has made it their mission to convert non-fruit-bearing trees on public land into ones that bear edible fruit. They call themselves guerilla grafters. I think it’s a great idea, but, some, it would seem, don’t share my enthusiasm for giving […]
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Guerilla grafting, and living off the fat of the land in Ypsilanti
Posted in Environment, Food, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged apples, Bacon, Beezy's, Charley Bowers, Doug Skinner, fleshy growths, food security, free food, fruit trees, grafting bacon onto skin tags, grapes, guerilla grafting, healthy food access, Lisa Bashert, moles, mulberries, Neighborhood Fruit, Now You Tell One, public land, raspberries, rats, silent films, skin tags, surrealism, Sustainable Ypsi, trees, vermin, walnuts, Ypsilanti Fertile Ground 23 Comments
The day the Mark went dark
Last night, as we set out to relocate this site at its new home in the upper atmosphere, I told you that you could take 48 hours off. I had been told, by our technical team, that the migration would likely take that long, and, during that time, the site would be completely dead. As […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Other, Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020 Task Force, Andre, animatronic alcoholics, Anton LaVey, beer drinking robots, cloud computing, dark mark, fruit trees, guerilla grafting, Horatio Alger, Lisa Bashert, Lord Voldemort, Manhole, MarkMaynard.com, Nancy Grace, Neighborhood Fruit, nipples, Patrick Elkins, robots, site maintenance, Small Wonder, Ted Lawson, the future of this site, You Gotta Have Hope 37 Comments