I was miserable working in high tech. It was a good job, good pay, good people, and I was trapped in a cubicle every damn day for nine years

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How to prune a branch off a tree correctly.

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Written by Tisa Watts, this piece was originally publish January 25, 2006 in the San Francisco (CA) Chronicle. Recently my next-door...

Everyone knows the woes of honeybees these days, but do you know about our native bees? In North America, we are home to over 4000...

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As many of you know (and may have seen), I’ve been hard at work building a prairie in our front yard. We’re blessed with a big suburban...

I recently received a question about mail-order plants and the widespread use of insecticides commonly called “neonics” (neonicotinoids)...

This is a great example of what happens after a tree is “stump pruned.” For some reason (unresolved hostility, perhaps?), a...