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If there was ever a vegetable gardening power couple, Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch would be it. Thirty years ago, I ...

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The presidential election hasn’t helped my anxiety, but it’s been great for my garden. I can’t wring my hands while pulling weeds and planting seeds. It’s also made me think a lot about my ...

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Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...