The definition of fertilizer is as follows; a chemical or natural substance that is added to soil or land to increase its fertility. Throughout time, the ways in which that definition was fulfilled had changed. Widespread chemical availability was only invented in 1913, when a scientist Carl Bosch innovated upon
Let’s start by taking a step back to what most of us understand about plants, to ask ourselves a simple question, how do they grow? Many will immediately think of a diagram they were shown in a textbook years back describing the fundamentals of botanical structure. Imagining the layout
Such a proud and defining moment to gaze upon the unfamiliar horizon Too easy is it to forget how such a thing can feel Having spent my time being dogged down with abstract concerns While the simplest of needs reverberated throughout my head Ushering me back and forth Such a
Living in Florida for almost my entire life, water has always appeared as something of abundance. Oceans stretching far into the horizon, hundreds of lakes, aquifers, excessive irrigation for the numerous golf fields and the constant presence of rain. It's difficult to create a perspective of scarcity with
It is a blissful illusion, to be lost in experience Deceitful actions, vampiric in nature To twist and turn our values beyond all recognition No more do we look upon our land with reverence Muddled through ever growing complexity We seek our confusion To willingly walk away from all we
Life is a complicated matter, full of wonder and the unknown. Even more so, how we can continue to stay alive throughout our numerous years and doing so without ever reverting back to some amorphous mass of individual cells. Some monstrous construction of living tissue all specialized and equipped for
Reach for the sky and you might just become a part of it Molded into our dazzling surrounding stage Ages must it take To tower above all others as so What beholds a lifetime of yours Secrets and stories from the star’s above Indifferent to the passing days Generations
What becomes of the world when the abstract controls reality To believe in a foundation no sturdier than a mirage All eyes willingly see through kaleidoscopes Focused more on a dazzling appearance, rather than the truth Although veracity can be ugly, unsatisfying and difficult to endure it is real People
To no longer wish if I could be so unequivocally free To lift the mask of expectation Without fear for my participation Quietly I wonder of what could be As I wander aimlessly Lost in a cacophony of distractions and false interactions Quietly I wonder of what could be If
Even Weeds serve a purpose… Everyone has been annoyed in the past by weeds, constant scourges to the home and garden, requiring chemical warfare or tedious manual labor to only temporarily have peace. But not everyone has thought about solving that key issue on why they keep returning. The key
Cherokee sat just beyond the border of the park, it took us only a few minutes to reach the park's entrance. My first thought as we just drove into the national park unobstructed was a peculiar one; how immediately as if walking indoors the temperature had dropped. Not
I open the door and am greeted with a rush of crisp cool air. My eyes haven't yet adjusted to the sun, slowly the valley comes into view. Cradled by such beauty, this place seems holy; as if the base camp before a deep pilgrimage. Greenery fills up