"Plants are routinely snatched from our garden by florists and landscapers." What's wrong with people?!
Though I wonder where the line is: obviously uprooting a whole plant is wrong, but is there a point in the size of a plant where one can take a cutting (or seed pod when/if it bolts into seed) to root/seed yourself?
Sidewalk Garden
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#22Only $24k for 800 sqft of construction. A lot less than I would've guessed. It would've been $240k if it was done by the government with 12 planning meetings and corrupt contracting bids.
I wish they broke down the costs. Sounds like a lot given than it excluded the concrete sidewalk, but maybe some of the plants cost a lot. The cost of a skid-steer rental and disposal of old concrete likely added up. Or (a) yard(s) of river rock and triple-mix cost more than I think.
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#23Hey Zacklein,
First, the website is clean and minimal. However, as the scroll is confined to the contents broken up into columns (I'm on a Desktop with big screens), can you please (I think) add a think vertical line to let the reader know the content is bound there and hence bring their mouse/pointer to scroll within that content. I could not scroll while I was away from that specific content area.
I have seen this type of gardens in San Francisco. I thought it was a common thing - something weird and odd but nice. A garden on the roadside, and not part of a home/building. There is another which I pass every time I took my walk. This is in the block next to the recent under-construction building fire in Hayes Valley, somewhere between Oak and Page. The garden is on the roadside, they aren't selling the flowers, it was kind not attended much and was locked.
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#24Hey Zacklein, First, the website is clean and minimal. However, as the scroll is confined to the contents broken up into columns (I'm on a Desktop with big screens), can you please (I think) add a think vertical line to let the reader know the content is bound there and hence bring their mouse/pointer to scroll within that content. I could not scroll while I was away from that specific content area. I have seen this…
I had this same problem and thought the page was frozen for quite some time.
But what a lovely sidewalk! Sometimes I think about what the world would be like if we had no wars, no crime, etc. Think of all the resources we could put towards good things. We could afford to have every street look like this.
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#25“Incredibly rich people made their environment and those of their rich neighbors better.” Great. But it does nothing for Oakland, or Richmond, or the kind of neighborhoods I can actually afford to live in (but still not buy a house in). I guess it’s okay if we keep making everything nicer for the elites and worse for everyone else?
I see the property deeds of the rundown apartments and tenement housing in my neighborhood. They are invariably owned by rich individuals and investment groups from far away in very upper class exclusive areas. I never see these owners do even the slightest gardening, sidewalk improvements, they won’t even fix the basic items of heat, water, building codes that they are legally required to do. Instead, they use their outsized slumlord profits to buy and remodel their own multi-multi-million dollar properties and leave the rest of us to rot.
Forgive me if I’m less than enthusiastic to cheer on the rich improving their neighborhoods and ignoring the rest of us.
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#26Hey Zacklein, First, the website is clean and minimal. However, as the scroll is confined to the contents broken up into columns (I'm on a Desktop with big screens), can you please (I think) add a think vertical line to let the reader know the content is bound there and hence bring their mouse/pointer to scroll within that content. I could not scroll while I was away from that specific content area. I have seen this…
Thanks for pointing this out. I toggled some Obsidian Publish settings and scrolling has improved; still not perfect, page doesn't scroll if your pointer is in the the TOC column.
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#27Lovely to see, but be prepared to have a plan in place for dealing with it in case it’s at risk if becoming kindling.
Having combustable matter within several feet of a building is one of the major risk factors when it comes to fire propagation through settlements, as demonstrated by the most recent firestorm in the news.
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#28“Incredibly rich people made their environment and those of their rich neighbors better.” Great. But it does nothing for Oakland, or Richmond, or the kind of neighborhoods I can actually afford to live in (but still not buy a house in). I guess it’s okay if we keep making everything nicer for the elites and worse for everyone else? I see the property deeds of the rundown apartments and tenement housing in my neighbor…
How is this making anything "worse for everyone else?"
What are you doing to make "Oakland, or Richmond, or the kind of neighborhoods I can actually afford to live in" better?
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#29“Incredibly rich people made their environment and those of their rich neighbors better.” Great. But it does nothing for Oakland, or Richmond, or the kind of neighborhoods I can actually afford to live in (but still not buy a house in). I guess it’s okay if we keep making everything nicer for the elites and worse for everyone else? I see the property deeds of the rundown apartments and tenement housing in my neighbor…
So nobody can do anything nice unless they first do something nice in the place you're the most interested in?
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#30What a good thing to do for one's community.