One of the things I like best about gardening is that it demands patience. While there are ways to speed along germination, fruiting, and ro...

"The world is large and full of noise." -Jane Hirschfield I meet with my thesis committee for the first time tomorrow.

"It is not the number of units in a system that give it strength, but the number of connections between those units." Notes from G...

I'd read that you can grow potatoes in a "tire tree" made by continuously stacking more tires and dirt over the leaves and st...

It's still very warm here.

snake handlers , originally uploaded by kt.ries . The truth is richer and better than fiction. These are sketches from a lecture by Fred Bro...

Swimming pools remind me of the hot sticky end of summer. This one did especially.