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    Berry very delicious
    • Dec 16, 2020
    • 3 min

    Berry very delicious

    by Dennis Growing up as a Vietnamese-American child along with my twin sister and younger brother, we were exposed to many different food...
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    YOU get a tomato . . . YOU get a tomato. . .and YOU get a tomato!
    • Aug 5, 2020
    • 4 min

    YOU get a tomato . . . YOU get a tomato. . .and YOU get a tomato!

    by Marie Stofesky The sun is shining brightly with not one cloud in the sky casting endless heat and making it unbearable to set foot out...
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    Ode on a Green Tomato
    • Aug 14, 2019
    • 3 min

    Ode on a Green Tomato

    (A play on Keat’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”) by Bonnie McGill I. Thou still unripened bride of sunshine Thou foster child of the South Your ...
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    Pass Down Those (Heirloom) Tomatoes!
    • May 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    Pass Down Those (Heirloom) Tomatoes!

    By Matthew Steplewski Does Beefsteak sound like an appetizing name for a tomato? Are you always looking for a perfectly round, vibrantly ...
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    The Disappearing Rice Bowl
    • Apr 3, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Disappearing Rice Bowl

    By Kausthubha Yaratha My memories of India are distinctly olfactory. Nothing can quite compare to the musky smell of the earth after a ra...
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    A Classic Love Triangle: a Dad, a Dog, and Some Peppers
    • Feb 14, 2019
    • 4 min

    A Classic Love Triangle: a Dad, a Dog, and Some Peppers

    by Brittany This is Leo (middle). He’s a weiner dog that likes to eat my dad’s pepper plants. I wasn’t there when Leo first tried my dad’...
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    Adventures of a Pre-School Arborist
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    Adventures of a Pre-School Arborist

    by Megan Presland I have only ever loved one tree in my life: the big, beautiful, gnarled apple tree that used to stand in my parents' b...
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    A Triad Romance
    • Dec 19, 2018
    • 4 min

    A Triad Romance

    by Charles W. Bier I don’t know when I first began to really know trees. As a youngster, I was literally a snake-in-my-pocket sort of ki...
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    Pokeberry sprouts for dinner
    • Dec 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    Pokeberry sprouts for dinner

    by Cheryl Moorhead Stone My grandmother, Grammy, was a back-to-the-earth hippie decades before the actual movement started in the 1960s. ...
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    Tundra cloud(berrie)s
    • Nov 28, 2018
    • 3 min

    Tundra cloud(berrie)s

    by Briana Jasinski I was first introduced to cloudberries via the name of a man-made structure. This structure was a slowly dilapidating ...
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    VerdeMente, diálogos con Seres fotosintéticos - Primera semilla
    • Oct 31, 2018
    • 2 min

    VerdeMente, diálogos con Seres fotosintéticos - Primera semilla

    Pilar Santamaría Motta Los verdaderos guerreros no suelen usar cascos ni armas, sino semillas y tiempo... Dodonaea viscosa, Hayuelo (Co...
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    When life gives you a lemon tree
    • Jul 4, 2018
    • 1 min

    When life gives you a lemon tree

    by Morgan Tingley Morgan Tingley is an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. He shoul...
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    Why I Don't Hate Plants
    • May 30, 2018
    • 4 min

    Why I Don't Hate Plants

    by Josh Galperin I don’t hate plants, though I do sometimes hate looking at them for too long. For that reason trees are among my favorit...
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    Monkeys, Mangoes and Climate Change
    • May 23, 2018
    • 2 min

    Monkeys, Mangoes and Climate Change

    by David Gill Growing up in Barbados, "summer" was my favourite time of year. Mostly because school was out (I hated school!) but also be...
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