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What I’m Reading: Teaming With Microbes
Read MoreThere is a world beneath your feet, or, if you avoid stepping on your garden soil, beneath your hands. Bacteria hide from hungry protozoa in tiny soil pores the protozoa…
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What I’m Reading: Never Out of Season
Read MoreBy the 1800’s the hills of Ireland were covered in the green foliage of potato plants. More than 3 million (or ⅖) Irish peasants subsisted almost solely on the potato,…
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What I’m Reading: Wild Fermentation
Read MoreFermentation is often compared to ancient alchemy, a mix of science, magic and art. Alchemist viewed base metals, such as lead, as spiritually and physically immature forms of higher metals…
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What I’m Reading: Insects and Gardens
Read MoreWe do not see most of the interactions in our gardens: ladybugs and ants wage war, aphids give virgin births and wasps lay their eggs on the backs of caterpillars.…
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What I’m Reading: The Urban Homestead
Read MoreThere is a movement happening in America’s cities. A movement of people who map edible trees in their neighborhoods and eat weeds growing from cracks in the sidewalk. These people…
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10 Children’s Gardening Books That Will Inspire a Love for the Garden
Read MoreChildren’s gardening books elegantly teach, entertain and inspire. I have learned more from the books below than from some of the lengthiest garden tomes. All of the children’s books listed…
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What I’m Reading: The New Wildcrafted Cuisine
Read MoreI met Pascal Baudar at a semi-wild park on the edge of the San Fernando Valley. I was there to learn how to make beer from wild plants. Baudar immediately…
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What I’m Reading: The One-Straw Revolution
Read MoreYou will recognize the similarity in the name, The One-Straw Revolution, and the name of this website. While I take my name from Paul Cezanne’s quote this book has been…
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What I’m Reading: Sunset Western Garden Book
Read MoreIt would be difficult to find a bookshelf that still houses an encyclopedia. But, there is a joy in searching for information without a screen. The New Sunset Western Garden Book should…
