Rock Rose Food Justice Project

11/23/2024

Pre-Thanksgiving harvest for SoulKitchen.

10/03/2024

Very happy to announce that my new book, The Maryland Master Naturalists Handbook (Johns Hopkins University Press), a guide to the ecology, environmental history, and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay region, is now available for pre-order!

The Maryland Master Naturalist's Handbook

08/21/2024

This summer I raised funds to support six fantastic Environmental Justice interns from the University of Delaware. Among them: masters students in entomology and speech pathology; a pre-med undergrad; and three PhD students in Geography and English.

We spent 10 weeks in Baltimore building gardens with the Nepalese-American Cultural Center; planting trees and native plant meadows with Stillmeadow Community Fellowship; building chicken coops with Ulysses Archie Jr.and the Baltimore Gift Economy; and growing and delivering many hundreds of pounds of organic food from the Rock Rose Food Justice Project to Soul Kitchen, the The Agoge Project and Love & Cornbread.

Oh -- and we paddled the Susquehanna and the Potomac, just for fun.

06/27/2024

Harvest time

04/09/2024

Bamboozled! Setting up trellises for pole beans.

03/06/2024

Hi, all -- many of you have followed the urban reforestation work we have been doing at Baltimore's Stillmeadow Peace Park over the last four or five years. Baltimore Magazine, edited by my fabulous former student Lydia Woolever, has just published a terrific piece about it, Check it out:

Starting with an inspired vision from a parishioner and nurtured by an outpouring of collaboration, Southwest Baltimore’s Stillmeadow woods have been given a second chance.

01/04/2024

Very excited: just handed in a new book manuscript: The Maryland Naturalist's Handbook, for which I served as both contributor and editor. 17 chapters (and 100 images) on everything from native plants and Chesapeake Bay ecology to urban forestry and environmental justice, written by some of the region's top scientists and educators. The book will serve as the primary text for Maryland's Master Naturalist Certification Program, which annually trains some 200 environmental restoration volunteers around the state. To be published later this year by Johns Hopkins University Press.