Are high-tech industrial vertical gardening visions viable? What is the energy equation and how does it square with lower tech (and less costly) options for transition to a more sustainable world?
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Seeds that heal
How restorative justice in urban farming can set people on new paths of pride, responsibility, and prosperity.
Urban agriculture mushrooming up everywhere
You can forage for mushrooms in cities, grow them, and use them in many applications. This block print helps tell that story.
We can pickle that!
Who better to tell the story of pickling things than Bryce Shivers and Lisa Eversman, the pickle-happy characters played by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein on the hit IFC sketch comedy show “Portlandia.”
Goats on the green
Writing about goat mowers will probably be among my most favorite essays for the chapbook for this show because the link between fossil fuel use and an overtaxed economy and environment are so painfully felt.
City bee keeping
Bees are a passion of mine though I don’t yet keep bees myself. I have, however, built a habitat garden for bees, butterflies, and birds in every place I’ve lived since I was 21.