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I'm going to keep speaking for the voiceless -- those species and organisms who no longer have or never had a voice in our consciousnes...

A weekend ago I met with some design clients and secured a job. As we stood in their backyard a line of snow geese slid across the sky. Aft...

I'm celebrating 2 years of Milk the Weed with the nerdiest, awesome-ist list of links on butterfly and pollinator gardening I can come ...

A native plant landscape is not an attempt to "return to some past, pure nature." That's impossible, especially with climate ...

I'm sad to know the last of the garden's snow will melt away this weekend. I cherish the seasons. I especially cherish winter. Ther...

Today in two of my English classes we're finishing Linda Hogan's stellar book Dwellings, where she says there are occasions where w...

Oh, if only I'd had charged ANY of my DSLR batteries this image would be better. Still, we counted about 45 eagles on Branched Oak Lake ...

Do you know of anything around Lincoln or Omaha? Nursery trends are supporting native plant landscape design and plant purchases, and educat...

"The Benedictine monk Thomas Merton said, “The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all t...

I am so happy. Being stuck inside a warm home, the wind howling, the trees and stems and spent flowers topped in snow, cardinals dashing fro...

More and more support for the way our relationshops are changing and must change even more in the natural and built environments. And by ext...

Our dream is to run a small, boutique prairie nursery with local ecotype seeds (100 or less species). We'll have a 1/2 acre display gard...

I'm in love with winter. Head over heals. "Brown is a color, too" is something we should hear much more in the gardening world...

In my presentations on the ethics of designed landscapes in a time of climate change and the 6th mass extinction, I make my way to what I co...