Asters are no longer asters, they are in the genus Symphotrichtum, unless they are Eurybia, and there are dozens of species. They are all harassed-looking daisy-types with 1/4″ or 1 1/2″ flowers, heart shaped leaves or lance-like leaves, in varying shades of murky blues and purples and whites and pinks. […]
Resilience & Climate Change
Lake Hitchcock and the Laurentide Ice Sheet
Other than the stars, the planets have the longest damn memory. Ours included. I wanted to have a larger view of the history of the land where I garden, which seems so impossibly old. So: We are at latitude 42.38, longitude -72.65, in West Hatfield, Massachusetts, on the western side […]
Rejecting despair: Gardening on a vulnerable planet
Reject climate change despair. We don’t control much beyond ourselves and half the time not even that. We’re just a bunch of pixels in the end. The bad news is: nothing lasts. The good news is: nothing lasts. I’ve been taking welding and soldering classes in order to make water […]