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Tasting summer during dreamtime

A few months later…. Coming back from a long break, and it feels like I owe an explanation.  I don’t have one.  Somehow I just stopped writing, and I don’t really know why.  Lots of things happened to distract me: a gi… [...]

Winter Injury

Understanding the cause of winter injuries to trees is the first step toward preventing them. [...]

Gardening Journals

With the holidays around the corner, this is the time of year when we start giving the gardeners we love the gardening memorabilia they’ll adore. [...]

And the Winner Is …

“I tell you what guys–if Jeff Dunham shows up to the Clucker Council meeting again and tries to stick his hand up my butt, he’s gettin’ the beak!”Thanks everyone for participating!  I so enjoyed parsing through all your entries.  You made it… [...]

Giveaway! Farmstead Chef Cookbook

First, we kissed off corporate America as twenty-somethings, pledging to never again let dysfunctional executives walk all over us while greed runs wild. You might say our premature mid-life crisis may have been caused by indigestion. That’s way befo… [...]

Working with Joel Salatin: An Intern from Polyface Farm

This summer, Scott Price completed a four-month internship at what may be the most well-known and well-respected organic farm operation in the country: Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, run by Joel Salatin.  An accountant by education… [...]

Not Your Average Pumpkin

Growing award-winning pumpkins is no easy task. It takes hard work, a discerning eye, and just a bit of science to produce the greatest gourds. [...]

Young Farmer Profile #3: Marysol Valle at Urban Roots

It’s hard to put your finger on what makes the farm at Urban Roots so enchanting.  Maybe the protective surrounding of trees takes you to a rolling country somewhere, rather than off highway 183 just a few minutes from downtown Austin.  May… [...]

Sad Face: A Brief Note to My Readers Intended to Fill the Void

So this adjustment out of farming is going to be harder on me than I thought.  My grand plan was to wait it out until I was inspired to write about ag and ag issues again, but in the meantime that meant a crushing silence on Dissertation to Dirt. … [...]

The Really Big Three: The Giant Pumpkin Showcase of Champions

The New York Botanical Garden is proud to announce the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth’s Showcase of Champion’s winners for 2011! Beginning Friday, October 21 the three largest pumpkins in the United States will be on display in the Garden’s Visitor C… [...]