Plant roots

The microbial community in the ground is as important as the one in our guts.

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H plant 18 cm, D root 71 cm, diameter root system 41 cm

These drawings (all 1,180 of them!) show us the hidden beauty of tree roots below the surface.

To represent the way a corn plant's root system appears when planted in soil, I retouched a photograph of a plant removed from the ground, using a diagram as a guide for how to reposition the roots using Photoshop.

Certain big questions loom large in transition. And the good news is that transition seasons are fertile ground for discovery if we're asking the right questions. Here are some of the right ones to be asking...

Choose from Root stock illustrations from iStock. Find high-quality royalty-free vector images that you won't find anywhere else.

Discovering the work of Arnold Kenseth – a poet, liturgist and preacher from Massachusetts – has been for me one of the real joys of the past two years. For that discovery I owe a debt to my dear f…

How to grow your own EDIBLE SOD. So easy, even a kindergartner can do it! Microgreens sit at a sweet spot between sprouts and mature plants. That spot is so sweet (metaphorically speaking) allowing…