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Tenacious Weeds

I got the worst of the weeds out of raised bed #15 yesterday. The worst are thistle, and this bed had a lot of thistle. It’s the worst because it will come back and because it stings my hands if … Continue reading

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Weeds and the New Machine

I was complaining about weeds on Facebook yesterday and getting lots of sympathy. It doesn’t bother me to weed if I am able to be systematic about it. If you just go out and attack the weeds all the time, … Continue reading

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Nature is Culture

The thesis of Michael Pollan’s Second Nature, it seems to me, is that Americans live in a constantly uneasy relationship between nature and culture. Their relationship to the land: from visions of true wilderness (which exists only in the imagination) … Continue reading

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