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We walked 40 acres east of Lincoln last week, and while no piece of land will ever be ideal, this one has over 10 acres of hilltop prairie a...

Gardeners and those in the business of gardening (designers, breeders, landscapers) can't get past the native vs. non native plant conve...

Roughly 1% of the tallgrass prairie remains, making it one of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet. While Arbor Day is all good and ...

300 cheers for Jim Harrison's piece, which I'm quoting from below. He makes his rounds from writing to ethics to agriculture to Nati...

When I think about the loss of tallgrass prairie my heart busts open and my body quivers. Then a well of anger springs up. How can I deny t...

Gardens are meant to celebrate the beauty of wildness and translate our emotional connection to nature, but how can they do that if they a...

Some day we're going to read about a high end garden designer in a top notch publication, and instead of just talking about pretty plan...

We love to watch charismatic species enjoy our gardens -- butterflies and hummingbirds and, sometimes, moths and bees. But these are just a ...

For your reading pleasure, two quick snippets from a longer interview: "It isn’t inevitable that human beings degrade these systems; ...

As an ethical being I make choices based on instinct as well as critical thinking that displaces myself (puts me in the shoes of others). Do...

A garden designer is different than a landscaper. Most commonly when we want a new garden we go online and look up "landscaper." A...

This past weekend I spoke to some employees at Denver Parks and Recreation about naturalistic and native urban garden design, then headed to...

That's the phrase I often hear -- we can't go back. The implication is that any sense of restoration using native plants and native ...

The way we speak about gardens is primarily as human-centered pieces of art. We use grandiose words praising the evocation of a place on our...

For years now I've been waving the flag about garden ethics -- how empathy is at the heart of how we should be gardening . I'm alway...

Put your faith in people or the systems we've created to govern ourselves and our world, and you'll be disappointed more times than...

Today is my grandmother's birthday -- it's easy to remember because all of the numbers are the same. She would have been 94, and in ...

Wow, what a week! I'm so glad I stopped being a part time college teacher (dead end job, but always wonderful students) and decided to g...

Spending a small amount of time with my 85,000 word Oklahoma memoir, a draft that's been silent on my computer for three years now. I co...

The below is taken from a ruminative essay on the term "natural resources," which has so many sinister and unhealthy connotations ...

Tell me when to stop -- in order to have a successful garden we must have highly-amended soil. That soil should be a rich, puffy loam that s...

Why don't you read my latest Houzz piece: "Nature is not a garden, but it’s too easy to see nature as something imperfect. When ...

It's been argued that we live in an age of novel ecosystems -- wild landscapes now so altered by humans that they no longer function as ...