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Earth Dumpling Energy! Time to think about Spring and Seed Bombs.

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Earth Dumpling Energy! Time to think about Spring and Seed Bombs.

  Are you familiar with seed bombs? As you may have noticed, we like to discuss the history of things at Pulp. And seed bombs are a real doozy. Lazy gardeners, read on.  Masanobu Fukuoka was a  Japanese microbiologist and farmer. Somewhat of a philosopher, too. He celebrated natural farming and revegetation of desert lands and came up with the idea of ‘Do Nothing’ farming in his book ‘One Straw Revolution’. A kind of Zen Farming tome, the book “critiques almost every aspect of food, bodies, and culture in a witty and effortless way”.  He points out why modern farming...

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Got Blank Walls? Then You Need Posters.

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Got Blank Walls? Then You Need Posters.

But not just any Posters. Cool, Beautiful, Inspiring, Ethereal, Educational Posters. From us, here at Pulp, of course.  If we’re going to tell a ‘How it Started and How it’s Going’ story, we should start at the beginning. The year 1477 to be exact. Public woodblock prints were publicly ‘posted’ (ahem, hence the name) on walls in England to advertise a handbook for priests. Got to give it to them. They knew their market.  Anyway, a few hundred years later, in 1866, a French guy called Jules Chéret created the first colour lithographs. The V&A museum in London explains it...

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Write Daily, Sprout Daily: The Beauty of Seed Paper.

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Write Daily, Sprout Daily:  The Beauty of Seed Paper.

Imagine submerging your used computer in soil. Along with all the notes, memos and E-vites that you’ve sent and received through it. Yeah, the same computer that cost you three grand and is now obsolete after only a few years. So you dig a hole, place the laptop in the hole, then cover and water. Wait 3 weeks, and guess what you’ll get? Yep, a whole lotta nuthin’. Actually, worse than nothing: E-waste is pretty toxic! BUT, what if you had used notes, cards, old messages, and wedding invitations that could be planted and sprout a beautiful garden filled with...

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