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I'm giving a presentation and having a book signing and raffle in Lincoln, Nebraska. You in? Saturday 9/30 from 2-4pm Hardin Hall aud...

Over on the new site I've got lots of images exploring our backyard meadow and the front prairie beds .

The Deep Middle has moved! I'm trying to consolidate my life and make it more streamlined. So the blog will now be at my main website li...

The fescue lawn to meadow conversion, summer #2, keeps plowing ahead. As the 2,000' of fescue blooms, native forbs and grasses among it ...

Today we remember those who sacrificed their freedom so we could follow our dreams, and it's not just humans we should be talking about....

Two weeks ago I heard a calling from under the ceder trees. I swear, local cats must put hobo signs on our fence. There he was, a scrawny ki...

This week I was installing a pollinator garden at a local school with the help of volunteers -- mostly some awesome kids from that school. T...

Every plant matters. In a time of climate change and mass extinction, when our culture is disconnected from wildness in our ecoregions, ever...

A few shots of how things are looking. I still prefer autumn and winter -- spring is so blah. And everyone is mowing, blowing, and mowing ag...

In my forthcoming book I discuss how having hope is not as empowering as we might think, particularly on issues of climate change and social...

Whenever I see the word "beauty" used to describe a plant or garden, I cringe on the inside. Beauty is an abstract term based on h...

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated...

There are times people think I'm too extreme or passionate about native plants, wildlife, and conservation. But if you read this article...

Every year we drive 90 minutes west to view one of the coolest bird migrations on the planet. And every year before we go I wonder -- why bo...

The recent Cheerios-sponsored wildflower giveaway to save the bees was fraught with problems. First, saving the bees does not mean honey bee...

You've probably heard the term "native plant Nazi" used in one context or another. Over the last few years I've heard it u...

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Lots going on this spring, and I hope we'll be meeting up or working together soon. So, let me share with you a lovely start to 2017: ...

Daffodils, crocus, snowdrops, and tulips do not signify spring to me. Here in the central and northern Great Plains, that role usually falls...

Our species has long had privilege over other species. Slowly, our privilege has begun to feel like a right -- something preordained. We can...

I see my garden as an act of compassion and justice. Instead of the tyranny and supremacism of lawn or mulch, there are diverse beds of fl...

From chapter 5 of my forthcoming garden / nature / philosophy book: " Native plants are the tip of a much larger iceberg. The convers...

In most cases, people will tend to believe what they already believe, unfortunately. A core part of my forthcoming book explores the psychol...

Many new garden design opportunities are coming up, which excites me as I marry that burgeoning practice with the activism I profess in my f...

The landscape design world is still far too divorced from actual ecological processes and communities that very much exist in our country,...