A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. |
I don't think it's a journalist's job to issue shopping lists or policy descriptions. We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are — the environment, your health, animal welfare — the answers are going to be different for every person. |
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway |
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. |