January 2021 DIRT NERD ANTI-PLANNIST Growing vegetables is never going to be cheap or free. It is, at its center, an exchange of energy for energy, elements for elements, food for food, life for life,... Ian Willson
December 2020 DIRT NERD CUTTING BACK Once upon a time not so long ago, a great notion came to pass upon our culture, passed down by those most comfortable in their ephemeral notions of security and... Ian Willson
October 2020 DIRT NERD DON’T FALL FOR “THE FALL” PLANTING SCHEDULE Growing prototypical American-type vegetables in prototypical American home vegetable garden ways can be very tricky for both... Ian Willson
September 2020 DIRT NERD WET ASS PLANTS My inaugural Dirt Nerd, written four years and some change ago at the onset of a more innocent sort of summer, was about the importance of watering your plants... Ian Willson
August 2020 DIRT NERD LAWNS ARE HELL The “Grow Food Not Lawns” angle of the food justice movement is played out to the degree that I get sponsored ads through Instagram for t-shirts with the very... Ian Willson
July 2020 DIRT NERD There are Black farmers and Black organized community gardens in this city, and their impact on food insecurity and social justice has been potent to say the least. To name a few... Ian Willson
June 2020 DIRT NERD Hot and Fast: A Dirt Nerd Q&A Round This month, in a celebration of our inability to actually take anything to any actual streets given our present reality, I’ve decided... Ian Willson
May 2020 DIRT NERD Summer is Coming It was maybe going to be the apocalypse and you were afraid food economies were facing imminent collapse and you were thinking when you got tired of eating... Ian Willson
March 2020 DIRT NERD It’s 2020 and plants are the new pets that used to be the new children. We dote upon and adore our houseplants like our momma’s mommas did our… mommas. And well we should.... Ian Willson
February 2020 DIRT NERD SPOOKY GOOD HERBS, PART TWO Last month as a new moon and a new you approached alongside the new year, we explored the most potent potions hidden within herbs that you can grow... Ian Willson
January 2020 DIRT NERD SPOOKY GOOD HERBS The flu season is upon us, nobody in this city treats their liver right, astrology is the new organized religion, and we are existing in a pre-apocalypse,... Ian Willson
December 2019 DIRT NERD LETTING THINGS IN Knock knock. You’re getting a double feature this month: one part plant, one part creature with which to sate multiple itches in your gardening brain. They are... Ian Willson
