I harvested the last of my peppers and tomatoes this week (thank you, global warming) and so now it’s time for me to belatedly share some of my fall gardening tips for freegans and cheapskates.
First and most importantly: Seed saving, sharing, and swapping.
Obviously, when you save seeds and then start them yourself, you don’t [...]
The Max Planck Institute has figured out how wild wheat seeds dig themselves into the ground.
Image: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Here’s how they summarize the process:
The awns of the wild wheat are both steering mechanism and engine at the same time. They guide a ripe grain to the earth with the pointed end [...]
“We hate dandelions.”
That’s what the lady on the television says in one of those commercials for the suburban WMDs known as “weed killers.” She seems like a nice lady and pretty normal, so I wonder what the dandelions could have done to make her so mad?
I mean “mad” in both senses of the term: Angry [...]
Superweeds. That’s what they call unwanted plants that survive despite being drenched with herbicides. We who work for earth and animal (including human) liberation must be superweeds of hardiness and adaptability.
We’re all injured animals, walking around with lead in our brains and pesticide residues in our veins. Many of us also have endured violence, [...]
