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A black and white illustration of a tv with a cracked screen that has plants growing out of it. The tv and the screen are white and there’s a large black hole in the middle of the screen where it’s cracked. Plants are growing out of the middle, sides, and top. There are buttons on the bottom of the tv’s frame. Illustration by Rachel Speck.

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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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