I'm giving a presentation and having a book signing and raffle in Lincoln, Nebraska. You in? Saturday 9/30 from 2-4pm Hardin Hall auditorium 3310 Holdrege UNL's east campus Raffle prizes include ...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/09/book-launch-signing-raffle.html
Over on the new site I've got lots of images exploring our backyard meadow and the front prairie beds.
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/06/come-to-new-blog-see-suburban-prairie.html
The Deep Middle has moved! I'm trying to consolidate my life and make it more streamlined. So the blog will now be at my main website linked here. It's been 10 years on blogger at this web addres...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/06/new-blog-address.html
The fescue lawn to meadow conversion, summer #2, keeps plowing ahead. As the 2,000' of fescue blooms, native forbs and grasses among it continue to overtake and outshine. It's only a matter ...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/06/lawn-to-meadow-year-2.html
Today we remember those who sacrificed their freedom so we could follow our dreams, and it's not just humans we should be talking about. Prairie dogs, bison, lesser prairie chickens, grassland so...
Two weeks ago I heard a calling from under the ceder trees. I swear, local cats must put hobo signs on our fence. There he was, a scrawny kitten about 4 months old, meowing his head off. Of cours...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-garden-needs-your-help.html
This week I was installing a pollinator garden at a local school with the help of volunteers -- mostly some awesome kids from that school. The small garden will not only support wildlife, but inc...
Every plant matters. In a time of climate change and mass extinction, when our culture is disconnected from wildness in our ecoregions, every plant holds the power to reconnect us -- to revive ou...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/05/joy-is-fewer-plant-cultivars.html
A few shots of how things are looking. I still prefer autumn and winter -- spring is so blah. And everyone is mowing, blowing, and mowing again. Main garden turn 10 this summer Geum triflorum I d...
In my forthcoming book I discuss how having hope is not as empowering as we might think, particularly on issues of climate change and social justice for all species. I quote a little Derrick Jens...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/05/living-without-hope-is-freedom.html
Whenever I see the word "beauty" used to describe a plant or garden, I cringe on the inside. Beauty is an abstract term based on highly personal and complicated emotions, which are filled with su...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/04/gardens-are-not-beautiful.html
"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/04/how-we-see-animals.html
There are times people think I'm too extreme or passionate about native plants, wildlife, and conservation. But if you read this article you'll see why, and it's totally based off of where I'm fr...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/03/rebuilding-prairie-at-home-and-beyond.html
Every year we drive 90 minutes west to view one of the coolest bird migrations on the planet. And every year before we go I wonder -- why bother? Why do people go year after year just to see the ...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/03/oh-so-many-sandhill-cranes.html
The recent Cheerios-sponsored wildflower giveaway to save the bees was fraught with problems. First, saving the bees does not mean honey bees, which are imports and globally stable. Honey bees al...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/03/cheerios-might-be-bad-for-you-and-bees.html
You've probably heard the term "native plant Nazi" used in one context or another. Over the last few years I've heard it used less and less, thankfully, but someone recently used it in a social m...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-troubling-phrase-native-plant-nazi.html
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Lots going on this spring, and I hope we'll be meeting up or working together soon. So, let me share with you a lovely start to 2017: Speaking I'll be appearing at a few places. 3/6 -- Michigan W...
Daffodils, crocus, snowdrops, and tulips do not signify spring to me. Here in the central and northern Great Plains, that role usually falls to pasque flower, which blooms sometime in late March ...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/02/daffodils-and-hollow-nature.html
Our species has long had privilege over other species. Slowly, our privilege has begun to feel like a right -- something preordained. We can see this with white middle and upper class privilege. ...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/02/privilege-in-ethial-garden.html
I see my garden as an act of compassion and justice. Instead of the tyranny and supremacism of lawn or mulch, there are diverse beds of flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees. Wide varieties of wild...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-garden-refugee.html
From chapter 5 of my forthcoming garden / nature / philosophy book: "Native plants are the tip of a much larger iceberg. The conversation goes well beyond what is native and why or how gardens wo...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/01/quoting-new-garden-ethic.html
In most cases, people will tend to believe what they already believe, unfortunately. A core part of my forthcoming book explores the psychology of climate change and environmental issues, which I...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/01/native-plant-activism-social-justice.html
Many new garden design opportunities are coming up, which excites me as I marry that burgeoning practice with the activism I profess in my forthcoming book. I'd still like to get a summer speakin...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2017/01/what-year-it-will-be.html
The landscape design world is still far too divorced from actual ecological processes and communities that very much exist in our country, even in urban centers and other novel ecosystems (we can...
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/2016/12/our-gardens-need-science-and.html