"A Chemical Reaction" Makes the Case
You may remember my plea to help get this anti-pesticide documentary seen. Well, that was before I'd seen it myself and now that I have, I can recommend it not just for its powerful message but for the fascinating person...

Sustainable and Urban Gardening News November '09
GardenRant edition. The whole newsletter is right here. Feel free to admire my new front-yard fence! It's natural cedar and replaces a chain-link fence covered with English ivy (memories of which are fading fast.) Here's the before and after, with...

Heavy Lifting
Am I the only person who finds fall as labor-intensive in the garden as spring? My daughter's Dill's Atlantic Giants: Almost too big to move Man, there is a lot to do. Crops have to be harvested. There is nothing...

What's a Garden Photographer To Do?
This story that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle a couple months ago got me thinking about the fate of garden photographers in the digital age. Used to be that a photographer could spend a lifetime shooting plants and gardens,...

Who cares about honeybees, anyway?
Guest Rant by Xris, the Flatbush Gardener Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been making the news rounds for a few years now. It's old, if still current, news. Dire outcomes from the loss of honeybees have been proffered. For example,...