Growing

They'll turn your food to dirt, and melt your heart—at a pace only a mother could love.

Wait, she wants to undo gardens? Read on...it’s not so much about horti-cancel culture.

On an Aerate assignment, cyberstalking some botanists, I stumbled upon a call for horticultural volunteers at Marine Park in Brooklyn. The rest of the story is pretty dirty.

https://youtu.be/lVa0EnagsDM

Dear Eden, Are colorful wild mushrooms generally more dangerous to eat? A: In a perfect world we could read mushrooms like traffic signals. Green means go, yellow means caution, red means...call the estate lawyer?! Alas, no such luck. Sure, there are some brightly-colored bad boys you should definitely avoid—like the pumpkin-orange Jack-o-lantern mushroom (Omphalotus olearius) and the scarlet red (and aptly named) Poison Fire Coral...

June blooms need decapitation while forests need conservation.

...Or dig deeper and find solace there.

Weather’s warming, so invest in some cool(ing) stuff.

The news is aswarm with warm weather wackiness—like pollen blizzards!

Green thumbs think they have the key to life, but no shame in dirt: we’ll be rotting in it someday.