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Birds began populating my own dreams. A great blue heron glided across the sky of my mind, slow and prehistoric, carrying the world on her back. A million sandhill cranes unspooled from the horizon, ...

FROM FOOD CROPS TO FLOWERS and everything in between, gardening has long been a practice of inheritance, love, community, healing, resistance, and delight. Explore a beautiful variety of gardens today ...

QUEEN ANNE’S LACE lace is part of the family Apiaceae, and is also known as wild carrot. Its cousins are caraway, celery, ...

I was thrilled to spend some time with her and talk about critiquing institutions from a place of love, what remains after we ...

MY BOSS AND I SIT in his extended cab, Dunkin’ coffee in big cupholders, and our only common interest: making furniture. We arrive in the Far Rockaways after spending five hours with nothing to talk ...

Maybe we need a different metaphor than “mother tree.” I say this as a mycophile who doesn’t want any of the organisms involved to be given short shrift. I say this because, as a species, we have ...

AFTER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF of dating, Sam and I decided he should move into my house. We had each lived with partners before, but those moves had been swayed by financial stress and global ...

ON A MID-AUGUST SUNDAY in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz, ...

I HAD THE AMAZING EXPERIENCE, in preparing for this conversation, of getting to read these authors’ works all at once—Merlin Sheldrake, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kaitlin Smith. I hope it’s not ...

THE CHICKEN WAS UNWELL. She no longer ran to the summons of the leftovers pail to scratch at the compost heap with the other hens. Morning found her in a corner of the henhouse facing the wall, with ...