Mother Nature
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Stay Home
Barbara Kingsolver’s tribute to Wendell Berry inspires me to stay committed to one place rather than constantly searching elsewhere. Continue reading
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Farmland Reprieve?
Yesterday, the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) was scheduled to “officially” close. Then a California circuit court judge stepped in. Continue reading
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A Decade of Octobers
Whether biking or hiking, I traversed thousands of miles in farmland — miles that taught me more than I could have ever imagined about nature, beauty and art. Continue reading
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The Coming Darkness
Now is when darkness starts to take over from the light. This year that darkness is compounded by the upcoming closing of farmland. Continue reading
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A 20th-Century Thoreau
A bard of the environment, Annie Dillard was a visionary whose “shimmering prose offered glimpses of the eternal.” Continue reading
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Build Your Garden and They Will Come
Don’t chase butterflies. Build your garden and they will come. Continue reading
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We Must Keep Dancing
“We must persevere at this, our dancing; we must learn to move faster and faster . . . .” Continue reading
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Farmland Strawberry Moon
It follows the lowest path across the sky of any full moon, but symbolizes the peak of the flourishing of nature. Continue reading
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Solstice Sunrise
Extraordinary transformations can happen in just a half an hour. Continue reading
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God’s Grandeur
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God” — the first line of “God’s Grandeur” by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins Continue reading
