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.... the ethical imperative to garden differently is glaring. This from AMERICAN GREEN by Ted Steinberg: 1) Between 1994 and 2004, an esti...

This is the place my wife and I had our wedding reception six years ago, but last night we were at their annual festival. Spring Creek is a ...

This Saturday, 9/21, I'm opening my heart and soul to anyone who wants to poke and prod it.  At 1pm I'll give a roughly 30 minut...

Out here in Nebraska prairie is an endangered species. In a little over a century it's been pushed back to bad soil, roadsides, and grav...

No other plant seems to get people's engines revving more than butterfly bush. I mean heated arguments -- I've been in my fair share...

Because Trans Canada wants to put a pipeline through the Nebraska sandhills and above the Ogalalla Aquifer, and the oil is coming from tar s...

I'm not sure where summer went. Fastest one ever. I am certain that it was just last week when I bid farewell to the four classes I was ...

If you've been reading this blog since early July, you know how I feel about native plants and ecosystems, about what we're doing to...

Prairie is my home. Nebraska is my home. Yet there is so little prairie. Therefore I feel homeless. I finally began to articulate this id...

Ok folks. I'm one of 16 people speaking on 8/29, from 7:30-9:30, at Ignite Lincoln. We each have 5 minutes and 20 slides to make you lau...

I like to torture myself -- but also dream. If you can imagine the thing, you can make it happen. There is a fairly ideal acreage for sale...

It's the latest I've ever gone by well over a month, but found three eggs on Asclepias sullivantii and brought them in. I thought fo...

If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, my articles below will be redundant to you, but I wanted to share with you the writing I'm doin...

Last week my wife and I visited an acreage for sale that's 20 minutes west of Lincoln. It's 80 acres of rolling land, with two tree ...

Last week I was invited to a surprising space in the country club area of Lincoln, a typical older home on a small lot. As one would expect ...

I've been in a musing mood this week on my personal Facebook page, and thought, hey, I'll share them here -- because sometimes lefto...

I remember climbing the imposing, vertical ladder of the combine to reach the cab when I was about eight. The slick, sun-baked green paint,...

I actually felt nervous digging this in, wondering if neighbors will be offended, what someone might say, if it will be vandalized for what ...

I live in a young suburban development, and most of the houses have nothing but lawn right up to the foundation walls. A few homes have thin...

Monarch Gardens , my native plant garden coaching business, will have an educational tent at two farmer's markets this month, August, an...

Time for my annual self love festival. It's always amazing to see how the garden looks from year to year on the same date, and to do it ...