Tag: Ecology
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Some time last summer, I came across the No-Till Growers YouTube channel. As most people, I grew up being taught that in order to grow vegetables I absolutely had to turn the soil. Preferably more than once before planting actually. And yet, the gardens of most people who taught me this basic “fact” looked rather…
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One of my first books of 2025 was an audio form of Zoe Schlanger’s “The Light Eaters”, which considers the intelligence and communication of plants, opening up to consideration eg. the memory of plants of winter and the anthropomorphization of communication, leading to the false conclusion that human beings present the highest possible form of…
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Concrete Botany appears to be a promising book on urban ecology and a good introduction to plant identification. Even more so, after I found out that the author, Joey Santore, is actually Crime Pays. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, often shortened as Crime Pays by fans, is Santore’s youtube channel, on which he takes viewers…
