Plants keep getting smarter, as we slow down

Plants in my yard communicate and cooperate, and move to where they want to be.

Visit to Bears' Ears reveals why preserving the area is crucial

Both ancient home sites in Angel's Canyon and current cultural uses are at stake.

Tree's 25 years can barely dent a carbon footprint

This Earth Day tree absorbs some of my ecological guilt, but I'd need 60 to account for a plane trip.

Seed exchanges aim for open-source, local plants

The fall brings one of my most political acts: preparing for local seed exchanges.

A poem written for the Women's March Jan. 21,2017, by Carolyn Dale

I need you. I need your feet to stand near mine, our shoes to step together, aligned on the street.

I need your eyes to lock on mine, reflect shared truth: that shards of glass from the ceiling our heroine broke turned to fall against us and have scraped our hearts raw.

I need the close friendship of your flesh and bone, not a cyber connection mediated by collective clicks.

Now we can brush away swirls of others' false reality, a mirror world where we women barely count, our beings boundaried by scorn and striving kings.

As we read each other's faces and firmly direct our feet, Mother Earth breathes through to us, beneath the street.

I need you. I need your voice rising with inherited truth: It's a new dawn. No more servitude, nor back of the bus.

We need to pick up the work of these women before us, take up each day's task for freedom and worth, in the eternal trudge that turns with meals, the laundry, our deep trust.

We need each other to wake us up from dreaming, to chant in the morning a full, spirited presence for our wit, our senses.

As we gather, power merges into a force called "we," and "us." Our feet walking together will deliver envisioned truth: that linking the sacred space between us creates our future.

We need this power—drawn from the Earth, our eyes, our truths, our past, our feet—stepping as one upon the street.

Plants keep getting smarter, as we slow down

Visit to Bears' Ears reveals why preserving the area is crucial

Tree's 25 years can barely dent a carbon footprint

Seed exchanges aim for open-source, local plants

Timely issues

Powerful need