Food

In My Garden

by Ruben Mesa At the front of my house I planted some peas To try and help out the neighborhood bees. They went in the ground, And I...

The Apple Tree Life Cycle

by Morgan Heinemann I have lived in the same house my entire life. Twenty full years behind a 270 acre apple farm. Fishkill Farms has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...