Everything above ground is winding down, so why plant now? A beginner’s guide to autumn garlic: what to buy, how to plant it, and why it asks for almost nothing in return.
Every January I built an elaborate system for becoming a better person. Every February it was dead. Here’s the tiny, almost embarrassing habit that finally lasted, and what a garden taught me about designing it.
My old feed reader had folders, filters, a mobile app and a recommendation engine. I read almost nothing in it. So I threw it out and built something tiny. Here’s what I kept, what I cut, and what it taught me.
A novel about trees rearranged how I think about time, effort and the long game of gardening. Thoughts after finishing Richard Powers’s Pulitzer-winning book, and a few reservations.
I used to treat compost like a recipe: measure, turn, wait, worry. Years of heaps later, here’s why it’s better understood as a conversation with billions of tiny organisms, and how to listen.
