Plants and Politics WHO? White House Organics, That's W.H.O. November 20, 2008 • The chorus is growing louder and louder to get our President-elect to convert a few acres of the White House lawn into a productive organic farm.
Plants and Politics Acres Of Sunshine September 26, 2008 • A ray of light and enlightenment from Flora: Four years ago, looking for a less costly product alternative to the soybean/corn grind, Dave Burt decided to try his luck with sunflowers, plants far better suited to his lean, mean soil.
Plants and Politics Where Fossil Fuels And Fertilizers Rule September 24, 2008 • I'm on assignment in southern Illinois, spending time with an insightful and open-hearted farmer named Dave Burt. He's likely to be the first person I'll be profiling for a future Morning Edition series with the working title, AMERICAN MOXIE: HOW ...
Plants and Politics The Platform Of The Garden Party September 5, 2008 • Who says there's no platform for gardeners as the prevailing winds whip this country intro frenzy?
Plant News Do Your Plants Suffer From Indignation? May 13, 2008 • Did you miss the Nature article about the Swiss government throwing a thorny one to a govt ethics committee: to debate the dignity of plan
Plants and Health Pomegranate Juice Fights Cavities May 1, 2008 • So we know (or think we know) that pomegranate juice -- like acai from Brazil, and other superfruit juices -- helps with everything from lowering bad cholesterol to inhibiting prostate cancer and reducing some of the
Bad Plants Remind Me, Why Do We Hate Dandelions? April 17, 2008 • It's a banner year for dandelions around Portland, I don't ever remember them looking so fulsome and jaunty before. They're strewn like wildflowers along parking strips, lawns and empty lots (the few that are left here in Boomtown) and by and larg...
Plants and Climate Change Talking Xeric in Albuquerque February 25, 2008 • One of the biggest water-saving heros in the Southwest these days is Scott Varner, who over the last decade has cultivated quite the crowd for t
Plants and Climate Change Amazon: A Reluctant Goodbye February 9, 2008 • Well, it's time to move on from our week in the Amazon. At least to the exclusion of the rest of the world. No doubt Rosario Costa Cabral and the planet's other inspirational farmers, gardeners and environmentalists will continue to be our guests ...
Plants and Climate Change Amazon Q&A February 6, 2008 • Just to catch you up, this week we're focusing on Rosario Costa Cabral, one of the world's more inspiring farmers.
Plants and Climate Change A Not-So Mythic Amazonian February 3, 2008 • She likes to be called Rosario. Her full family name is nearly a dozen syllables long.
Native Vs. Exotic Plants More from the Sinkhole January 4, 2008 • Here's the plant, here's the sinkhole, look inside and there's the people...
Native Vs. Exotic Plants For Love of a Sinkhole January 2, 2008 • Q: How many paleoecologists does it take to excavate a sinkhole, find seven previously undescribed bird species and reintroduce native plant species to a place they haven't grown in for a thousand years?
Native Vs. Exotic Plants Rock Star Botany 202 January 2, 2008 • Mahalo! It's another splendid day here on virtual Kaua'i ... of course I haven't been to the actual island in a while, but tuning in to the island's public radio station helps ...
Native Vs. Exotic Plants The Little Green Orchid That Could December 31, 2007 • On behalf of all your chlorophyllic friends here at Talking Plants, Happy New Year!
Plants and Politics Let Them Eat Leaves November 21, 2007 • The local "organigrocery" was stuffed this day before Tgiving, people cramming their baskets as if preparing for a famine. And every one of us was blissfully distracted from the true famine in our own backyards.
Plants and Politics Tales from the Woods. Yours. November 5, 2007 • Man what a week we're wrapping up here at TP. So many new folks, so many smart folks and damn if you aren't an opinionated lot. Loggers, mill owners, non-profiteers, academics. Hortheads, spider freaks, xeriscapists.
Plants and Climate Change A Good Lumberman Is Not an Oxymoron November 1, 2007 • I got thinking about good lumbermen after a comment posted yesterday by TP community member, Rob Spence. It was in response to
Plants and Climate Change The Mighty Have Fallen October 31, 2007 • What mighty have fallen? Well, if we're talking about the building of America on the backs of the American forest, just about all of them. But if the subject's sudden catastrophe, I think of two species: the American Elm and the American Chestnut....
Plants and Climate Change Shout-Out for the Sugar Maple October 28, 2007 • Out of my own harrowing frustration trying to boil down a complex and nuanced story, today's Morning Edition feature now spills onto the page.
Plants and Politics As the Santa Ana Winds Blow October 24, 2007 • Here's a few insights about the current fire that speak to our concerns and questions about our relationship with the natural world.
Plants and Politics Greetings from Stump Town October 18, 2007 • I was heading for the chiropractor's yesterday and had to merge onto I-5 heading south out of Portland. Usually, that merge is no problem, but in the lane to my right was a big old truck with a body that went on for miles.