May 2022 DIRT NERD MY PASSION IS HERPES: A Q&A With Lemon Balm Far from a staple in the garden, but certainly not an unfamiliar name to even the most casual gardener, I myself have been... Ian Willson
April 2022 DIRT NERD Dinosaurs are Forever: A Q&A with Lacinato kale Lacinato kale, a long time favorite vegetable of mine, is unique unto itself in a plant family that many of us depend on for so... Ian Willson
December 2021 DIRT NERD CITRUS: YOUR FUTURE IS BRIGHT Fruits are a privilege and a pleasure to have ready access to in this world. We are lucky to live in a time where all year long fruits both... Ian Willson
November 2021 DIRT NERD GOING TO GROUND Rarely has stability, from a universal standpoint or from an individual perspective, been anything more than a fleeting idea that presents itself for mere moments... Ian Willson
September 2021 DIRT NERD VEGETABLES IS MURDER I believe plants feel things the way we feel things, that they experience joy and pain and sadness and pleasure, and that they do so in a way that we don’t... Ian Willson
July 2021 DIRT NERD WEED (PART II) As the summer sun summons ever more vegetal monstrosities from their slumber deep beneath our unassuming soils, this month we continue our exploration into some of... Ian Willson
June 2021 DIRT NERD WEED It is an arbitrary word, subjective by almost any measure. A word’s meaning will inevitably shift as it moves through time and cultures, and so also it is with weeds, whose... Ian Willson
April 2021 DIRT NERD MAKING IT RAIN, AFTER THE RAIN Dear Ian, I write with a question for Dirt Nerd. The question is rain barrels. They seem like a good idea insofar as we have tons of roof runoff,... Ian Willson
March 2021 DIRT NERD In celebration of ANTIGRAVITY’s 200th edition, 198 lines of haiku, and these two lines. Like all Future Crawfish Paper, every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s... Ian Willson
February 2021 DIRT NERD A REVOLUTIONARY NEW GARDENING METHOD If there is a common thread that ties my gardening advice columns together, albeit loosely, it is that gardening buzzwords, cure-alls,... Ian Willson
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
