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Expanding the Medicine Chest with Herbs
Last week I spent a sunny afternoon working an herb garden while learning more about the uses of medicinal herbs. My friend Greg Monzel is a community herbalist who’s helped many (including me) with...
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Many Hands
Lisa Boyles, who turned a vacant lot into a beautiful meditation space and labyrinth, is coordinating a new project in her neighborhood. Her energy and drive are truly inspiring. In fact, when I read...
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Seven Steeples Farm
Last month I got to meet Justin Berg and Mike Higbee, who are doing something I admire: turning unused urban land into an agricultural oasis. As with many such endeavors, they glean local materials to...
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The Ground Rules
Meet “renegade researcher” Nancy Klehm. She’s on a mission to transform our thinking about waste—and to transform our waste into healthy soil. I first met Nancy at last October’s Radical Mycology...
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Fomenting the Ferment
Fermentation on Wheels rolled into town over the weekend. Tara Whitsitt has been driving her mobile fermentation lab cross country since October 2013. As soon as I heard she was coming to Indy, I knew...
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And Now for Something Completely Different
I don’t very often blog about my personal writing project(s), but the terrific nature writer Katherine Hauswirth nominated me for a “blog hop” (writers sharing about their work). So, bear with me as I...
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Living Proof
Yesterday at Rivoli Park Labyrinth, I met up with a riotous party of plants, insects, and birds. The park, which formed on a vacant lot thanks to community organizer Lisa Boyles, has gotten overgrown...
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Foraging on Two Wheels
Yesterday evening I joined Greg Monzel and friends in an activity combining two of my fave things to do: riding my bike and foraging for wild edibles. It had been rainy all day and I wasn’t sure I was...
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We’re Walking Ecosystems: Notes on Collaboration
Lately I’ve been thinking about collaboration. I envision a world where nations, geographic regions, cities, neighborhoods, and affinity groups find an ease and flow in working together. Maybe it seems...
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When someone says all is lost, do you agree? Do you match her intensity of lament with your own, amping up the despair? Or do you try to talk her out of her fear and angst, knee-jerkily attempting to...
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