ARTICLES
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NON-HUMAN PERSONHOOD
What is a person and who gets to be one? What is our ethical obligation to others? How do we classify those others so that we know what we should and should not do to them and with them?...
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WHY LOCAL GENOTYPE MATTERS
Where we are affects who we are. Especially so for plants, who spend their entire lives in the same spot. Genotypic families of plants tend to all be located in more or less the same place- the same hollow, river valley, mountain, or watershed...
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HOW TO PLANT A MEADOW
Everywhere a meadow is, is life. A meadow is a waystation for migrating monarch butterflies and warblers. It is a mansion to snails and an inn to flower beetles. It can be a part of your home, too...
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WINTERTIME IN THE PIEDMONT
Winter in the meadows, thickets and forests of the Piedmont is a time of grey branches and nascent growth. The land is seldom covered in a thick blanket of snow these days...
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AGROBIODIVERSITY, LOCAL GENOTYPE PLANTS, AND RELATIONSHIP REPAIR
The first time I met Apios americana, I thought it was a wisteria vine. I had grown up around tons of Japanese Wisteria, and its leaflets were just similar enough that my inexperienced mind jumped to the familiar...