← Back to the Front Page · June 2026 · Book Review Book Review · Regenerative Agriculture · June 2026 The Man Who Learned to Read the Ground Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture In Dirt to Soil, North Dakota rancher Gabe Brown tells the story of how four years of catastrophe…
← Back to the Front Page · June 2026 · Butterthief Gardens The Hard Numbers 44M acres of lawn in the U.S. — about the size of New England, mostly dead to wildlife. ½ Convert half of it to natives and you’d out-acre most of the lower-48’s national parks combined. 100s of caterpillars needed to…
← Back to the Front Page · June 2026 · Butterthief Gardens From Our Beds The Zucchini That Wouldn’t For three years we filled our raised beds with bagged organic garden mix, over a base of composting leaves and small sticks — a hügelkultur bed, it turns out. And we could not grow zucchini. Zucchini!…
The Rooted Life Series · Nature & Neurodivergence · June 2026 What Trees Know About Listening My grandchildren stop and talk to the trees; my grandson sometimes hugs them. He is autistic, as am I, and she is not. I have come to believe they are doing exactly the right thing — and the science…
Why Bother ☔ Soaks up much of the rain that hits it, easing storm drains and creeks. 🌡 Insulates the building — steadier temperatures, lower bills. 🐝 Becomes habitat — a fresh patch of refuge for pollinators and birds. 🛡 Shields the roof from sun and weather, so it lasts longer. Green Roofs · Living…
Book Review Cover courtesy of Chelsea Green Publishing June Pick · Regeneration Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture Gabe Brown · Chelsea Green, 2018 Four years of catastrophe forced a North Dakota rancher to stop fighting his land and start listening to it. The founding text of the regenerative movement — it…