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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,...

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...

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