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Jan25

Atom from Atom

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Solarmap

Atom from atom yawns as far
As moon from earth, as star from star.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’ve been a little obsessed with this poem as of late. But how insightful is it?

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Mar17

Seeing Nature

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When I first started teaching gardening I stumbled across Paul Krafel’s Seeing Nature, and it was a revelation to me. Through a series of personal nature parables he shifts our perception in order to reveal the subtle flows, cycles, patterns and personalities that inhabit the living world around us. Sand fleas, a deer carcass, vulture flight, tundra flora and water erosion (among other things) all have something to teach us, if only we are willing to look deeply and listen.

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Feb01

Get Growing Keep Going 2010

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I’ll be teaching a class on school garden design at this year’s Get Growing Keep Going, school gardening conference.

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Dec12

Relationships

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In order to lay the foundation for a discussion of ecology, we’ve been discussing the word “relationship” in the kindergarten class. Last week we talked about the general meaning relating to the garden, but focused on those relationships close at hand, such as family or friends that I felt the kids could grasp. As an [...]

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Sep04

Tour the White House Garden

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Take a tour of the White House kitchen garden in this new video.

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Aug19

Quail Update

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Coturnix Quail

Our quail are featured on Treehugger!

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