Mark “Merriwether” Vorderbruggen

Growing Lazy

One can argue that gardeners are not in tune with nature but rather, in a constant war with it. This is easily shown by the amount of effort they put into growing stuff - amending the soil, watering, weeding, fertilizing, tilling, and also killing anything that dares to eat their plants. Meanwhile, nature is thriving all around them unattended but growing wildly. You know you can grow food the way nature does it, right? Put down your shovel, hoe, and seed catalogs. Sit in the shade and drink a tall, cool glass of something as you let nature do its work for you. It's better for you and the environment. Nature will give you delicious and nutritious foods if you let it!

Mark "Merriwether" Vorderbruggen, Ph.D. chemist, herbalist, author, foraging instructor is an internationally recognized expert on edible and medicinal wild plants. For the last 20 years he's been using his skills to help people know what their ancestors new about living in/with nature.