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Book Review: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Gardening, Nature Awareness, Reviews
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...ts shower us with abundance. They give us food, medicine, textiles building materials, and less material gifts like beauty and solace. They even give us oxygen: their love for us fills our lungs with every breath. Plants are the basis of the food chain, so at the root of things, our lives are wholly sustained by and dependent on the beneficence of the plant world, and yet we so rarely take a moment say thank you....

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Attractive Ornamental Flowering Trees

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Fruit Trees, Gardening, Trees
...a chrysotricha Of all the trees Dr. Turney showed, I think this one was my favorite. The yellow flowers really pop out against a blue sky. Brachychiton acerifolius (Australian Flame Tree) Speaking of popping out, red flowers are also really dramatic. Chionanthus retusus Another good urban tree. To these suggestions I’d add one of my own that also produces a tasty fruit: Red Baron Peach Plant one of these as a bare root tree this spring and you’ll...

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Rucola Selvatica A Foglia D’ulivo: the arugula you’ve never heard of

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...rding to some sources, you have to cut the arugula with lettuce (a calming plant) so that the salad bowl doesn’t lead too directly to the bedroom. Find more arugula varieties at growitalian.com. Do you have a favorite arugula? As usual, I love hearing from our Italian readers about the special culinary uses of specific varieties. And, in this election year here in the US, I’m a little surprised that arugula has not come up as a campaign issue like...

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Epic Rants and Raves

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Thoughtstylings
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...ld, and all winter in the study.’ And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events. and not be painful to his friends and fellow-men. The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the f...

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