Horticulturalist and writer with an interest in native plants.
According to the National Wildlife Foundation, Americans dispose of over 35 million tons of yard waste every year. I know my neighbors are certainly busy gathering up the leaves into their brown paper bags. It always strikes me as odd, especially in a neighborhood where almost everyone's house
Spending time at the tiny nature preserve down the street from me has been my important ritual for decades now. It is the place I've taken first dates and new friends. It's also my place to clear my mind. I decided to get divorced on a
Physical landscapes are the stage on which we perform our own beliefs and values. Destroying and creating wilderness is a ritual of cultural reification, a way to define who we are and who we want to be. Thoreau, projecting his own racialized worldview on the ecological reality of North America,
I look out over my back yard and I see many things. I see the tunnel the woodchuck has burrowed under the fence. I see the twirling maple samaras transformed into seedling trees. I see plenty of work I could be doing. I see my home, the place where I