This is a fairly typical bit of vineyard in Germany’s Mosel Valley. Yes, grapes root in this stuff. It’s a good thing there’s lots of rain and it doesn’t get ridiculously cold. […]
Water From Rock
Public and Private
In a grassland, the wind never stops blowing. Either it’s a dry wind falling off the mountains after dropping its ocean water on the other side, or it’s a valley wind scurried […]
Knitting New Leaves for Old Trees
Here’s a way to get close to your apple trees … Can a Tree Have Too Many Leaves? Can a child not speak with its hands? What else do we have but […]
Flower Trees
In Germany and Switzerland, many garden walls are built quickly out of gravel dropped into wire cages. It’s quick, it looks better than military grade concrete, and it gets rid of rocks […]
Soil Atmosphere in Crisis
For thousands of years, farmers have been trying to keep the living earth at bay by stripping all plant life from their fields. Because of evaporation issues around the destruction of organic […]
Life Without Oil
There was a time in the world in which technology and the work of the planet were intimately related. It was hardly romantic, but it has come to be known that way, […]
Powering Your iPhone With The Big Bang
The motions of matter and energy at the beginning of the universe haven’t finished their movements yet, even here 13.5 billion years away. They blow by, just outside my door, and yours. […]
Wild Grain
Today, these notes on a dry country inland from the Northeastern Shore of the Pacific Ocean have me in a working class city on a rainy island in the Atlantic off the […]
The Kind of Planet This Is
What if the sun got hungry, or the earth did? Where would she go for a top up? How about off to the local lilac? Western Tiger Swallowtail + Lilac + Sun […]
The Language of Flowers
So, we were talking about flowers, way back, five hundred years ago in Iceland, when you picked a bouquet of wildflowers for your sweetie and they were instantly civilized, just like that. […]
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