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Root Simple
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Root Simple is a personal blog at rootsimple.com. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Root Simple for posts on Arduino gardening and homesteading projects, and a how-to on sun-drying food. The comments only link the posts and do not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Root Simple is about back to basics, DIY living, encompassing homegrown vegetables, chickens, herbs, hooch, bicycles, cultural alchemy, and common sense.
What Hacker News says?
Me too! Here's a bunch of Arduino gardening (and other) links: http://www.rootsimple.com/2013/03/arduino-homesteading-proje...
Comment linking /2013/03/arduino-homesteading-projects/
on “How to be an open source gardener”Submitted Don't store your cucumbers in the fridge (2012) as a story · 107 points
HN discussionApparently sun dried potatoes can last for years, but it's too cold and humid in the Uk to do it easily. One would need to jury-rig something like these out of stuff they already have, and it would only work if they have access to a place that gets enough sunlight... So it's a very long shot. https://www.rootsimple.com/2012/08/how-to-dry-food-with-the-... Then, reserve money for a planned cooking date in the future,…
Comment linking /2012/08/how-to-dry-food-with-the-sun/
on “Food bank users declining potatoes as cooking costs too high, says Iceland boss”Submitted That Time I Got Deplatformed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionList of references https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine https://blog.archive.org/2025/09/02/looking-back-on-preservi... https://archive.org/web/petabox.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PetaBox https://ipfs.tech/ https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive https://www.eweek.com/storage/making-web-memories-with-the-p... https://internetarchive.archiveteam.or…
Comment linking /2023/08/inside-the-internet-archive-a-meat-world-tour/
on “Internet Archive's Storage”