Link Love: Earth Day

Photo credit: far out flora

A few links for Earth Day. Stalk Bicycles are a sustainably built bicycle made in San Francisco out of locally grown bamboo. The surprisingly versatile material is not only earth-friendly, but can be sculpted to beautiful proportions. Stalk bikes stand out for their attention to detail, craftmanship and unforgettable aesthetic. Read more here.

Using a dissected old shipping crate and scrap lumber, gardening blog, Far Out Flora made this DIY Succulent Table earlier this year for their backyard patio. Click here to see more.

Willi Galloway scores these wooden vintage crates at an estate sale to use as planter boxes for her new veggie garden. See more.

Step by Step: How to make seed balls

Sugar Snaps and Strawberries, Simple Solutions for Creating Your Own Small-Space Edible Garden by Andrea Bellamy of heavypetal.ca

Wine box turned balcony-sized raised bed garden from Life on the balcony.

Happy Earth Day everyone!

Earth Day Inspiration: Cross-Writing

Used mostly in the 19th century, Cross-writing is a technique for saving paper.  After a page of writing or after both sides of a page were filled in, the writer would then turn the page 90 degrees and continued writing, adding a second layer of text, perpendicular to the first.  Apparantly it is surprisingly quite easy to read, as a reader's mind naturally tunes out the irrelevant lines.  Via BMD Love Blog (Bruce Mau Design).