HeyJaredRootbound
Rootbound, the official newsletter of Secret Plant Club, is about plants, gardening, culture, history and the ways that everything intersects.
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We’re moving to Canada! (opens the original)
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How do you say goodbye to a garden? I don’t have an answer to that question yet but next week, Brooke and I will wave goodbye to our tomato plants (for now) and drive to our new home in Toronto. Don’t worry, we’re bringing the dog and toddler too. Here’s the official announcement from KDKA-TV earlier this week:How do I feel about this? I’m excited. I’m sad. I’m nostalgic. I’m curious. I’m dragging my feet. I’m eager. I’m especially eager to start gardening a new space. I’m going to bid a proper
How I Found Mutant Plants in Pittsburgh (opens the original)
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I could spend weeks at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Herbarium. There are hundreds of thousands of specimens to pore over and, additionally, each of those specimens has a unique story. Some of these plants were collected by local folks I know. Others were collected by people who died hundreds of years ago. Some were collected a few miles away. Others were painstakingly picked in the Canadian arctic.I’ve been dreaming about producing my own plant-centric TV show for years and instead o
Am I the Jeff Bezos of my Garden? (opens the original)
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I imagine Jeff Bezos taking in his empire. He sees a country dotted with distribution centers, roads packed with Prime-branded vehicles and porches piled high with Amazon boxes. “I built all this,” he must think to himself as he pats himself on the back and directs his butler to feed him another bite of caviar sprinkled with diamond dust.I understand the feeling because that’s exactly how I felt last night as I looked out on my small backyard alive with the shimmering light of fireflies. When we
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