I’d never come across a scene like this before.
Limbs everywhere. The main part of the body—what was left of it—was barely recognizable.
I knew the victim, too. Lately it had been a shadow of its former self. But you could say that about a lot of people I knew. They didn’t deserve to be handled like this.
What really got me was the woman. The way...
Plants are our joy, our knights in leafy armor. But sometimes, they just break our damn hearts! Scientists feel like they’ve struck out when they can’t study botanical bombshells and have to settle for sundry ones. And we can literally flunk our cardiograms when we don’t feast on leafy greens, says a study that found “people who consumed the most nitrate-rich vegetables had about...
Full disclosure: I feel pretty weird writing about my bathroom, but we all have one—even tiny studio renters—and my facilities have facilitated a gardening breakthrough: dealing with the needs and messes of plant care without the typical space or tools. I don’t own a watering hose or a patch of dirt, so the indoor outhouse has become my horticultural center. Many of my plants...
Thursday was Earth Day, a rotation of the planet dedicated to itself, created in the ’70s to get boomers out of their hot tubs and est seminars and back to the land. And back FOR the land, really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbwC281uzUs
Fifty-one years after Cronkite croaked about “the fouled skies, the filthy waters, the littered earth,” it still feels like we’re (un)chillin like villains in ’21: The earth...
May! Where are all those flowers quenched by April showers? At the airport getting ready for YOUR MOM (Mother’s Day is Sunday lest you look like negligent spawn). Here’s a peek into the facility that stores 90% of all flowers entering the United States.
While we associate moms with home, the flowers we gift them come from all over. If you want the mom in...
Why you should never serve tomatoes on a plate…
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Avocado Advice? Strip and hide somewhere dark…
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Multiplication table, pothos edition…
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America is hungry.
At the start of this year 29.6 million people were living “in households where there was either sometimes or often not enough to eat in the last seven days,” according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. That’s up from 24.9 million in the first two months of 2020.
Food banks are filling the void, and to do so, they’re wielding a...
TikTok is a fascinating place, and Aerate is adding to the wonder. This week, our own videos blossomed, offering a mix of how-to information, catchy tunes and emotional support. Here are a few to whet your appetite. If you’re not sated by the end, you can always find more by following us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter.
Spider plant rehab includes a trip to...
Craning our necks after arriving at the front door bearing a fresh-baked pie is our go-to nosy neighbor strategy for finding out what’s in the garden next door — but desperate times call for desperate measures. In the interest of social distancing and actual data, this year we asked our favorite horti-companies to share their best selling products from last growing season and their...
