Tag: nature
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Mark J. Talbert – Your Yard Is A Garden: Sustainable Gardening for Landscaping, Lawns, Shrubs, Trees and Produce
Your Yard Is a Garden, Sustainable Gardening For: Landscaping, Lawns, Shrubs, Trees and Produce Is a comprehensive gardening book for beginner gardeners through experience gardeners. It focuses on sustainable garden practices based upon accepted horticulture practices in combination with time tested experience.
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Jocelyn Tambascio – Yellow Yuba
Icky the inventor has gotten himself into a sticky mess! His empty promises and misuse of nature’s gifts have left the village trees bare and water depleted. Only through the hard work of everyone coming together will the environment’s balance be restored.
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Suzy Sureck – SEE / SAW
SEE / SAW is a collection of poems, accompanied by ink drawings, that engage with themes of vision, myopia, and dream. Artist and writer Suzy Sureck takes us into a childhood defined by myopia, helping us to understand how her personality and way of being in the world were boundaried by blur and intimacy of…
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Douglas W. Tallamy – Nature’s Best Hope
In his new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. Nature’s Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government…
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REPLAY – Summer Climate Resilience Special with Laura Lengnick and Meredith Leigh
This week, as we come to terms with the catastrophic impact of hurricane Helene, we offer a re-run of our climate special with Laura Lengnick and Meredith Leigh, both of whom live in the devastated area of WNC. It offers some insight into regional resilience and how we
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s2e25 Summer Climate Resilience Special with Laura Lengnick and Meredith Leigh
We listen to highlights from previous climate resilience specials with authors Laura Lengnick, Resilient Agriculture, and Meredith Leigh, The Ethical Meat Handbook. Martha Cinader adds personal comments about changing behavior and recommends books. Poetry by Vanessa Lee Miller. Music by Baba Brinkman and DJ’s for Climate Action.
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Douglas W. Tallamy – The Nature of Oaks
Oaks sustain a complex and fascinating web of wildlife. The Nature of Oaks reveals what is going on in oak trees month by month, highlighting the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal. From woodpeckers who collect and store hundreds of acorns for sustenance to the beauty of jewel caterpillars, Tallamy illuminates and celebrates the wonders that…
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Douglas W. Tallamy – Bringing Nature Home
As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and…
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s2e19 Greeting Cards for All: Remembering Cleven “Goodie” Goudeau
We pulled up root crops for this show, from the west coast garden, we’ll hear poetry from REGINALD LOCKETT, and we dug up an interview with CLEVEN GOUDEAU, who created the first line of black greeting cards among many other accomplishments in a long career. From the east coast garden, we found more from RUTH…
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Suzanne Simard – Finding the Mother Tree
From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.
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Aren’t We Natural?
Aren’t We Natural? Do flies ask why corpses stare at sky while flowers feed on flowing blood? Greed floods the plain. We remain the same, destruction our game; we are the flame and the ash, food for the fruit tree, honey from the bee.
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To Do
to do speak ill speak truth speak wise obstruct lies use time chime with nature
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Note about Nature
What if we are just being ourselves, just like cockroaches are being themselves, and every natural and unnatural thing we do is really just our nature to do and we are just as loathsome to some superior aliens as that cockroach on my kitchen counter that I naturally want to smash?
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City Poet Country Poet
I do the dance with nature now. I do the long grind, the dripping sweaty summer, the dirt under my nails, the ant bites. I stay in the hot steamy kitchen, with piles of tomatoes to can