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When the Earth is Sick

August 27, 2020 by Kate Walter

Corn fields in the heartland, toxic to wildlife

Since the spring flooding in the Missouri/Mississippi watershed, I have been haunted by an image I saw as a televised news flash: a farmer, a clean-cut white man in work clothes, standing on sorely cracked red clay ground. The news story was about flooding, from the picture we were to see that the farmer lost…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Conservation, Sustainability Tagged With: coronavirus, health, illness, organic, pandemic

The Rule of Law

August 29, 2018 by Kate Walter

Environmental Lawyers are at work in 2018 to exercise and strengthen the laws that protect earth.   A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. –Benjamin Franklin  I’ve heard a lot of lawyer jokes. I’ve read some history and enjoyed conversation with friends and family who practice law, and I know…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Conservation, History, Sustainability, Water

Water is Life

August 11, 2018 by Living Traditional Arts

Living in Toronto for a lovely stretch, my feet missed my home ground and my tears, had they flowed, would have gone to the sea in a foreign watershed. Just a seed of homesickness, mind you; my Canadian experience did not generate tears. But the seed grew, in a creative impulse, to the beginning of…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Home, Painting, Shop, Storytelling, Sustainability, Water

Saving Seed of the New Zealand Pear – an organic gardener’s journey to the twilight zone

August 14, 2017 by Kate Walter

An acquaintance, a gardener, sent tomato seeds one year. Sharing seeds among gardeners fulfills part of the historical imperative that keeps plant varieties vital – the multiplication of seeds through dispersion. I took the important first step of planting some of the seeds she sent, and then I saved seed from the fruit of my…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Food, Gardens, Seeds, Sustainability Tagged With: compost, D4D, garden, heirloom, herbicide, organic, seed, tomato

Teaching Moments in a Desert Garden

February 17, 2014 by Michael Wright

  When I arrive at Las Milpitas de Cottonwood community gardens, Josh Banno and a group of students are already working. They had taken the city bus from their downtown high school as they do every Friday afternoon as an after school option activity to work on their small piece of ground in the larger community…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Education, Farming, Festival, Food, Gardens, Sustainability

Celebrating Local Food, Celebrating the Mission Garden

December 19, 2013 by Kate Walter

Being a food explorer in the southwest can be a demanding job, and on Saturday, November 9, there was more than one community festival calling us. Leaving Las Milpitas de Cottonwood, we headed north, traveling a couple miles to reach the party at the Mission Garden to celebrate the November issue of Edible Baja. Published…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Farming, Festival, Food, Gardens, History, Music, Seeds, Sustainability Tagged With: desert, food, garden, history, Kate Walter, Michael Wright, planting, seed library, seeds, sustainability, tucson, urban sustainability

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by Michael Wright

Garden of Radio Delights

Roll back the tape: 1960, Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 am. My upstairs bedroom.  Headphones on, I’m squinting in the dark at the lighted dial of my Hallicrafter S-38e short wave radio, with a Q-multiplier attached that I built from a Heathkit. The S-38e was produced from 1957 to 1961, making it the end of the Hallicrafters S-38 line of shortwave…READ MORE >

Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

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