The Rot

It's not always easy to leave your leaves

HOAs, angry landlords and nosy neighbors often collude to interfere with this: the earth's most basic practice of annual decay.

Nov 10 • 

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October 2025

Meet Danny and his compost app Peels

Let's see if we can get all your piles on there.

Oct 17 • 

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The smell of earth

Or, Streptomyces: a brief history

Oct 6 • 

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September 2025

I made a newspaper

On experiencing digital fatigue, making real things in the real world, and inoculating oneself from doom

Sep 26 • 

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June 2025

Our waste infrastructure lags behind the products we manufacture

One woman has set out to be part of changing it all for the better. An interview with Kaitlin Mogentale of Trashy Chips & Divert, Inc.

Jun 26 • 

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On how to compost grass, a quickie edition

This reader question is one that I think a lot of people have.

Jun 9 • 

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May 2025

An update on soil testing and LA after the fires.

Or: trying to become better soil stewards, even in hard times <3

May 16 • 

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April 2025

On the aura of Ruth Stout & not sifting my compost

A mini-manifesto on why I don't actually think you need to do it :spicy pepper:

Apr 25 • 

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FREE COMPOST, now showing

Some words on a small art show and the white cube's classical fear of "dirt."

Apr 12 • 

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March 2025

You Can Compost That?!

LA Climate Week, a compost party, and one of my favorite rants

Mar 31 • 

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Interviewing #1 backyard composter Ahram Park

Or: how compost is a legacy to the soil. <3

Mar 10 • 

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January 2025

After the fire.

Thoughts on your compost, safety, and patience in the face of the unimaginable in a post-urban-burning scenario.

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