Thinking in public—about gardens, landscapes, and the decisions that shape them.
Some pieces are essays, others are observations or case studies, but all of them are grounded in practice and shaped by experience. I’m interested in how choices are made, how ideas travel, and how landscapes reflect culture, power, and responsibility over time.
This writing is for people who care not just about what things look like, but how they come to be—and what they make possible.
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Some of the vegetables that deliver the greatest return in a home garden are also the easiest to grow. That may feel counterintuitive, but it makes a certain kind of sense once you start paying attention to space, speed, and repeat harvests. Years ago, The Cheap Vegetable Gardener crunched the numbers by comparing two things: […]
Living in a cold, snowy Zone 5 (more recently zone 6) climate, figs never crossed my mind as something I could grow at home. That is, until a couple of years ago, when I noticed a fig tree growing alongside the road not far from my house. Unprotected. Unassisted. Thriving. I was genuinely shocked. Since […]
This year, I’m finally confident enough in my garden to admit something out loud:I think my rhubarb is established. Which means I can now reasonably justify trying to force it. Forced rhubarb, for the uninitiated, is harvested earlier than usual and prized for being sweeter, more tender, and almost jewel-toned in color. Grown without light, […]
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Given current events—and the way my mind tends to work—I found myself typing “Egyptian gardens” into Google one morning, curious about what might surface beyond the familiar images of temples and monuments. What I discovered was something I hadn’t fully appreciated before: ancient Egyptian gardens represent one of the earliest known traditions of intentional landscape […]
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what my phone gives me—and what it quietly takes away. It used to feel like a tool for connection and efficiency. Increasingly, it feels like a source of low-grade anxiety, arriving in a thousand small interruptions. A few years ago, I deleted Facebook Messenger from my phone. I […]
There are artists whose work feels uncannily aligned with the way you already move through the world. For me, Sohei Nishino is one of them. His Diorama Maps pull together so many things I’m drawn to—foreign cities, travel, walking, maps, photography, collage, vast landscapes made legible through accumulation. From a distance, the works read almost […]
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