#Family

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...

The Inhospitable Plant for Skin Care

by Faiha Khan Would you rub a prickly plant all over your face? Well, here’s why you should! I still remember the shock of watching my...

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...

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...

Buuck's Bunny Barn and the 20 Acre Wood

by Rachelle the Drunk Phytologist Looking back, my whole childhood was a plant and nature love story, complete with a 20 acre playground....

玉 (yù)

by Isabel Acevedo One of my earliest memories of my Ama, my mother’s mother, is of her wrist: impossibly smooth skin always enclosed by a...

The Dandelion Sisters

by Megan Cate Dandelions are technically an invasive weed. Many think they are lawn nuisances and dedicate the spring and summer to...

Venus Fly Teacher

by Tony Chang My mom is an incredible plant caretaker—she just knows how to make things grow. She has the ability to pick plants from the...

Two siblings, one tree, and one broken arm

by Bonnie McGill I’m telling you he was throwing sticks at me and wouldn’t stop. So I did what any little sister would do when verbal...

Healing Aloe

by Jessya Both of my grandmothers lived with me growing up. My parents were immigrants and soon after they established themselves they...

Tomato love story

by Mallika Nocco My parents became two opposite people every time we traveled to Bangalore, both trying to cram everything they missed...