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June 2022

DIRT NERD

WE ARE NOT COMPANIONS A Q&A with the Three Sisters Beans, corn, and squash: Has there been a more transcendent trio in the history of the alimentary universe? This month I sit...

Ian Willson

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
A black and white illustration of weeds, and at the bottom reads “Elderberry.” The plant has a stem, leaves, and berries. Illustration by Rachel Speck.

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
A black and white illustration by Rachel Speck. It's got a trippy vibe, two psychedelic clouds raining what look like blood because its dark water. There are stars around them that look like asterisks. In the top left corner is a crescent moon.

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
A black and white illustration of leaves growing around a black frame. The frame is black and has white dots. Inside the frame are individual leaves spaced apart. Outside of the frame there are overgrown leaves all around it. Illustration by Rachel Speck.

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
A black and white illustration of a collage of mouths, money, and flowers. The mouths are all open and have flowers and leaves coming out of them to varying degrees. There’s a 100 dollar bill, a 20 dollar bill, a one dollar bill, and a quarter floating and falling. Illustration by Rachel Speck.

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
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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