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Quotes and Poetry to Decolonize Your Plant-based Feed
It’s about time we stopped quoting John Muir and captioning our instagram posts with “The earth laughs in flowers” because Emerson wasn’t being romantic with the actual intention of that over-quoted poem anyway. Here is a list of voices and faces that deserve some voicetime and facetime. This list is…
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Gardens as a Space of Healing
This isn’t my story, but my sister told me this a long time ago so I feel like I have the right to appropriate it. When she was in art school, she went to a park with one of her sculpture classes. When they reached an open area, the teacher…
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OMG, My Garden is on Native Land!
I know. Everything is on Native land. I just thought this occasion called for some clickbait. I was digging up my circle in the front yard and my shovel hit something crunchy but compact. I moved the shovel back a few inches and the metallic crunch resisted my intrusion even…
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Your Garden is a Protest
“Your garden is a protest. It is a place of defiant compassion. It is a space to help sustain wildlife and ecosystem function while providing an aesthetic response that moves you. For you, beauty isn’t just petal-deep but goes down into the soil, farther down into the aquifer and back…
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Looking for Gardening Podcasts
I’m always looking for good gardening podcasts, ones that give practical tips and plant profiles, but also one that touches on history, ethnobotany, and interesting stories about plants. One that represents a multiplicity of voices, indigenous wisdom baked into the mainstream hort pie, one that doesn’t quote John Muir because…
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Garden Therapy
Here is a thing I think we need. And by “we” I probably mean me. And maybe a handful of people who care about the dirt around them and the things that grow in it. That thing is: Garden Therapy Affirmation Counselors. GTAC? You know that feeling of affirmation when…
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Did I Lift My Dahlia Tubers too Early?
It’s midnight and I just got an email from Firefox with the subject “Keep that Weird Thing You Searched for Private.” Their bots must have detected my “weird” searches for “Did I lift my dahlia tubers too early,” “How do I find the eyes on my dahlia tubers,” “I think…
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Plant Profile: White Snakeroot
In mid-to-late October, you might see some ubiquitous tiny, white pompom flowers in a lot of part-shade woodland spots. It has probably popped up in your own garden. This is white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) in the aster family. It was previously classified in the genus Eupatorium rugosum because of its…
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Late October: Time to Plant the Garlic!
Halloween always seems to come too early. I’m never ready for the orange and black dollar store trinkets when they start snarling up the landscape. But it is a harbinger of the all hallowed garlic planting season! Garlic is a pretty reliable and fun thing to plant. Someone I spoke…
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Plant Profile: Bronze Fennel
I have always been confused about fennel. I had it growing in a border years ago and watched it grow all summer to 6′ tall. I searched the base for the edible bulb, but it didn’t look at all as substantial as the fennel at the farmer’s market. I then…
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