{"id":521,"date":"2010-05-29T17:42:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T17:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2010\/05\/domestic-terraforming-gardening-for-geeks.html"},"modified":"2010-05-29T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T17:42:53","slug":"domestic-terraforming-gardening-for-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/05\/domestic-terraforming-gardening-for-geeks.html","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Terraforming: Gardening for Geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: right;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/05\/ff_domestic_terraforming\/all\/1\"><img  title=\"Geek gardening\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e0099229e8883301348280b0d0970c \" alt=\"Geek gardening\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e8883301348280b0d0970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Gardeners are among the world\u2019s most charming snobs. Rightly so: As<br \/>\nwith music and mathematics, the more you know, the more elegant your<br \/>\nwork. Erudition is valued, and so is a smattering of pretension. If you<br \/>\nare a geek looking to put down roots, welcome to gardening. We offer<br \/>\nyou common ground. Think of it as localized terraforming, if that helps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instructions at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/05\/ff_domestic_terraforming\/all\/1\">Wired<\/a>. Hat tip to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/05\/gardening-for-geeks-domestic-terraforming.php\">Lloyd Alter<\/a>. Also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Terracotta-home-composter\/\">Terracotta Home Composter<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/restoringmayberry.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/garden-beds.html\">Make your own garden beds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanarbolismo.es\/blog\/?p=1003&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+urbanarbolismo%2FfJGG+%28Urbanarbolismo%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Flower madness in Cordoba<\/a> (Spain)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/06\/water-batteries-for-trees.html\">Water batteries for trees<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2010\/03\/make-your-own-lowtech-vertical-farm.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">How to make your own low-tech vertical farm<\/a> (previously)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gardeners are among the world\u2019s most charming snobs. Rightly so: As with music and mathematics, the more you know, the more elegant your work. Erudition is valued, and so is a smattering of pretension. If you are a geek looking to put down roots, welcome to gardening. We offer you common ground. Think of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,19,101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}