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Living Within Our Means, Means Knowing Our Limits

by Fred First I recently read these headlines, and was oddly encouraged: “Europe has already run out of fish for the year.” I’ll share with...

Dragonfly Pest Control: A Free Global Service

by Fred First Even after being a biology watcher for decades, I learned something very interesting a few years ago when I chanced upon...

Every Drought Ends with a Good Rain

by Fred First This selection is from Slow Road Home, written in August 2002, a lament during one of the worst droughts in living...

In Praise of the “Wolf Peach”

by Fred First It is, in fact, a giant berry, technically a fruit. And it has been variously misunderstood, feared, loathed and praised during...

Economics As If People And Planet Mattered

by Fred First Is it just me, or does most everyone you talk to these days think that most everything in politics, economics, society...

All Trails Lead to Blue Ridge Mountains

by Fred First A city girl, my mother used to say wistfully that she was born with the country in her bones. I lived, early...