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The documentary Forks Over Knives delves into this idea a little deeper. Plant-based diets result in plant-supported cells. And plants rule!
Commented Oct 10, 2011 on Grow Vegetables, Give Your Genes A Makeover? at Garden Rant
Grow Vegetables, Give Your Genes A Makeover?
You are what you eat. Everybody who loves good food understands this instinctively. But now, a piece in New Scientist by Ferris Jabr offers some proof. It turns out that we don't entirely break down our food. A study by Chen-Yu Zhang of Nanjing University found microRNA from plants floatin...
What's that quote: "A garden is never so good as it will be next year"? :) Thomas Cooper, I think. Gardens are constantly changing in the mind of the gardener, though in life it seems that they are constantly reverting to entropy. But if plants were fixed, there'd be no fun in it. Look forward to next spring and don't sweat the overgrowth!
Commented Oct 10, 2011 on Trust Me, My Hair and Nails Don't Look Any Better at Garden Rant
Trust Me, My Hair and Nails Don't Look Any Better
Why is your garden such a mess? You call yourself a garden writer? The above questions are on everyone's lips, including professional photographers trying to shoot my garden for magazines the mail carrier who can't stick mail in my basket without being velcroed by a 'Russelliana' cane my nei...
Very interesting! I'm putting it on my to-read list. I love history, especially illuminating biographies. This review reminds me of another book called The Invention of Air, which was all about the scientist who discovered the oxygen molecule and what led up to it. You can imagine that he used tons of oxygen-making organisms in his research--aka, he was a major naturalist and gardener.
Commented Apr 8, 2011 on The Founding Gardeners: An Interview with Andrea Wulf at Garden Rant
The Founding Gardeners: An Interview with Andrea Wulf
This is the latest in our series of bookish posts for Kirkus Book Reviews. And yes, we have a copy to give away! Comment to win--all comments considered, we'll choose at random. Andrea Wulf is following up The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession with a new boo...
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