“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 [...]
In honor of Rachel Carson’s 100th birthday today, I’m setting aside the three very interesting books I’m reading right now (more about them another day) to reread Silent Spring.
It’s apt that Carson’s centennial is happening on a Memorial Day weekend in the midst of a failed war. As the New Yorker reports this week, Carson [...]
Bees. While grabbing a quick lunch in between sanctuary activities today, I happened to glance at this article about what the scientists are calling Colony Collapse Disorder (I guess giving a mysterious emergency a scientific-sounding name makes it seem less scary). That led me to realize that I’ve been avoiding thinking about this emerging [...]
“Why did you move there in the first place?” people often ask when hearing the story of how we accidentaly started a chicken sanctuary in the middle of poultry country. I never can answer the question adequately, but one factor was gardening. When I worked as a tenant organizer in Ann Arbor, I started a [...]
