A gardener’s pandemic journal that combines
memoir with an exploration of the natural world
both inside and outside the garden.

Foodtopia glides gracefully through the
increasingly complex world of food, pandemic and all.
An important contemporary book.
— Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History

listen, as the waves withdraw, to the rasping
chatter of stone on stone. Surely such tumbling
also takes a toll, burnishing cobbles
into pebbles, erasing bedrock in due time.

I have, from time to time, declared my love for lichen. But that is a lie. I don’t love lichen; I love the idea of lichen. I love that they have made it work, have figured out how to live practically anywhere, to survive terrible conditions, to endure until they can thrive.

. . . because in photographs, emptiness is never entirely empty. It brims over, often, with promises: the assurances that there are connections to be made, meaning(s) to be found, stories that we can co-construct and understand.