Sublime

The glossy bean is speckled brown, curved and sleek, its inner belly marked with a white eye—the hilum. It slides like a polished stone between my thumb and forefinger, but this is no stone. And there is a pumpkin seed like an oval china dish, its edge crimped shut like a piecrust bulging with filling. I hold in my hand the genius of indigenous agr

Some species have a particularly effective way of avoiding inbreeding: each individual has only one gender. For example, there are both male and female willows, which means they can never mate with themselves but only procreate with other willows.

The next day she found Emilio, a black satin cat with ambitions that seemed more peaceful than the ones alive in Colman or West Hollywood. Emilio specialized in patches of sunshine and sharpening his claws on her one chair and purring if she so much as uttered his camellia name, “Emilio.”

perennial kale that seems really quite attractive, near-neon tubers of oca, and amusing but hopefully useful walking onion.