“The oldest task in human history is to live
on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
- Aldo Leopold
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135 ~ The Constant Garden
Welcome to the cusp of winter. Two afternoons ago I dove into the garden to salvage…
134 ~ Public Service Announcement: Words (of the subversive variety)
Time for the Spring Green Literary Festival…!
133 ~ Of speckled trout and champagne
In early winter of 1936 Frank Lloyd Wright nearly died of pneumonia at his home near Spring Green, Taliesin…
132 ~ An Equinox postcard from Taliesin
Welcome to autumn. When the sun traced its finger across the equator yesterday…
131 ~ Reclaiming Eden
The metaphorical Adam and Eve weren't driven out of the Garden of Eden…
130 - Guest post: The death of a survivor
Chickens are a big part of life here at the farmstead. My major sources of protein this time of year are, in order…
129 ~ An elder redux, and this vibrant time
In a recent post I wrote about a 101 year-old friend, an associate of Frank Lloyd Wright, who still lives at Taliesin. In a short video story just out from "Wisconsin Life"…
128 ~ Going in to find the way out
My brother Tom, who is a marvelous painter, once said to me while visiting the farmhouse, "Bird, your vegetable gardens are your art, they are your canvas.”…
126 ~ For the love of rain
Whenever I hear something along the lines of "What a lousy day, all this rain”, I feel my dissent rising…
125 ~ Further reflections on fungi
In the months ahead, as I work on the book on Saola, here at “A Bird in the Bush” I’ll bring in and share other voices on the importance of connection with nature…
124 ~ The world according to morels
May is the curious month when the distance between sunrise and sunset gets longer, but the days feel shorter because there's so much to do…