Learn to grow stylish wildflower plant communities in your garden for wildlife. Plus how to apply these advanced gardening techniques to grow food easily. Based in the exposed Yorkshire garden of award winning garden writer Jack Wallington.

Politics, Economics, and current Events

Plants and people

Almost daily, Violet the Dog and I take a walk at the Cedar Bluffs Natural Area above Cedar Creek in Mahaska County, Iowa, and these are my observations, photos, and Merlin bird logs.

essays on plants & ecology, motherhood, gardening, simple living, farm things + more ~ reflections from a life lived on and close to and in awe of the land

Welcome to The New Now. I publish manifestos, essays, prose poems, novel chapters, short stories, noir prose poems, and flash fiction. I also touch on living through these historical times, quotes on life, writing, books, and freedom of thought.

Reports from the edgelands

The politics and culture of Iowa, the Midwest, and beyond.

Shifting the Climate Story from Fear to Possibility

exploring folklore of nature through all four seasons, especially folklore of water, trees, weather and harvest cycles, the unseen, and how nature folklore can guide us.

I am passionate about nature-based solutions. I have a master's degree in engineering: Urban Water Engineering and Management a joint degree from the Asian Institute of Technology & UNESCO-IHE. I have 15 years experience as a civil engineer. I love nature