To Kill and To Eat
Farming chickens takes care and concentration, and a deal with the birds: We give you a life of safety and comfort, and you die for our food. Until a murdering predator arrives and gives lie to the vow.
gardening
A collection of 18 issues
Arbotchery
Across the country, in cities large and small, trees are being hacked, whacked, and chopped into unnatural shapes in the name of the power company. An illustrated catalog of abuse.
The Noble Garden
Prisoners garden. Spies garden. Gardening is good for every soul. But a desire to garden doesn’t a gardener make. A story of slaughtering plants.
Brawl Between the Boxwoods
Marigolds wither, periwinkles rot, and a tree mysteriously dribbles cat urine. Our writer is in over her head, once more, with plants.
Room for a View
New York’s empty balconies need filling. Our writer inaugurates a new series about urban-gardening warfare and southeastern-facing frustration.
Persephone in the Park
Spring is popping up all around New York City, but those crocuses have a dark history. Explaining the Pagan past of what's growing on 87th Street.
Breakfast With the Beeb
Sounds can take us home—even when that home belongs to someone else, and the sounds are of obscure gardening comedy.
Timescape
We preserve old buildings, why not old landscapes? Our transplanted horticulturalist discovers a mysterious garden outside time’s realm in Greenwich Village.
Secret Gardens
Now a New Yorker, our resident green essayist brings her yardwork series to the big city, even if it means breaking into private plots.
Leaving Charlottesville
Departing the (garden) lovers’ state for one that loves its cement and money more, our scribbler of the lillies realizes the crucial difference between caring about plants and caring for them.