You Say Tomato, I Say Blight!
By Emily Monosson / On April 28th, 2015
Photo courtesy Cornell's Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center.
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When We Don't Know More Than We Let On
By Andy Dyer / On April 23rd, 2015
#ForewordFriday: The Things You Don't Think Of Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On April 3rd, 2015
Life-changing Chemicals
By Emily Monosson / On March 25th, 2015
Magical Thinking is Not Conservation
By Meghan Bartels / On March 10th, 2015
Post by David Johns, contributor to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth.
When humans started to farm 12,000 years ago, they began to change the earth in basic ways, pushing aside other species to make room for themselves and those they favored, killing creatures they didn’t want and domesticating others, altering soils and water courses to suit themselves, and generally replacing ecological complexity with simplified landscapes.
Pesticide Cross-Resistance
By Andy Dyer / On December 15th, 2014
Reposted from the Chasing the Red Queen blog with permission.
Thanksgiving: Are we eating it all wrong?
By Darrin Nordahl / On November 26th, 2014
This Thursday, Americans will gather around family (and football) to anoint a succulently roasted bird the grand symbol of our venerated Thanksgiving tradition. We will eat dishes in honor of that first harvest festival in 1621. Cranberry sauce, stuffing, rolls, pies, and, of course, honey-hued turkeys are the dishes we Americans will enjoy, as they were enjoyed by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag almost 400 years ago.