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    In My Garden
    • Apr 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
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    The Apple Tree Life Cycle
    • Mar 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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