From Edible Front Range magazine

John's humor and commentary appear in many newspapers and magazines, including:

• The Denver Post:
  
  • Plant your seed capital for a great investment return
  • Backyard beekeeping will benefit bees, beekeepers and everyone else
    
  
  
• The San Francisco Chronicle:
  
  • It may be hot outside, but it's cool season in the garden
    
  • Managing expectations: The key to happiness in garden and life
    
  • The 100-Inch Diet: Out-localing the locavores
    
  • Recipes are of no use to gardeners
    
  • "As ye sow, so shall ye reap" and other lies about gardening
    
  • National Food Security
    
  • A Handy Guide to Not Growing Radishes
    
  • Word up to you young folks: Gardening is wicked enjoyable, yo
    
  • Worldly lessons taught in community garden
    
  • The Beer Garden
    
  • Sowing seeds of acceptance in garden, life
    
  • Gardening popular among families, retirees, evil dictators
    
  • Dad stoops to serving Twinkies with chard
    
  • Giving away what we grow raises delicate communication issues
    
  • Kids in the garden go beyond dirt
    
  
  
• Edible Front Range
  • Cider, like gardening, grows more intoxicating with age
  • What I learned from my peas
  • In our system of foodalism, I'm happy to be a peasant
  • Growing Soil: Compost is vital to our gardens, our national security and even our celebrities!
  • The Hedonist's Garden
  • Gateway to the Rockies! Organic Medical Marijuana in Colorado
  • Garden Porn: Seed catalogs should come in plain brown wrappers
  • Kale: Disrespected Garnish Steps Up to the Plate
  • Hooked on Eating Local: A locavore goes ice fishing
  • In Defense of Beets
  • Garlic: The Lazy Gardener's Best Friend
  • A Dandelion Manifesto
  
  
• The Christian Science Monitor
  Why do I garden? For the non-stop, heart-pounding adrenaline rush!
  
  
• The Underground News, a publication of Denver Urban Gardens
  • Growing from the Ground Down
  • Married Community Gardener ISO Friends with Vegetables
  • The Garden Workout
  • What the garden gives us: Food, and a cornucopia of useful symbols
  • Support DUG!
  
  
• GreenPrints magazine
  • Many stories over the past few years
  • My piece in their "Funniest Garden Stories" anthology
  
  
• Colorado Gardener
  • Vegetable Husbandry
  • Notes & Beets from the Underground
  • Do Local Poultry Ordinances Allow Chicken Little in the Garden?
  
  
• Bird Watcher's Digest
• Brew Your Own magazine
• Warm Earth, an organic gardening magazine in Australia and New Zealand
• Home & Garden Journal, a regional gardening magazine in Oregon
• Sydney's Child, Melbourne's Child, and Brisbane's Child magazines
• ...and many others

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A special message from John:
The articles I write contain no useful information whatsoever. That's my promise to you, the reader. But if you'd like to get some good information about gardening, food, and the related public policy issues, and learn about some organizations that are doing great things in community gardening and local eating, check out these:

• Denver Urban Gardens
• American Community Gardening Association
• Home Grown Colorado, an excellent blog on local eating by Becky Winning
• Edible Nation
• Kitchen Gardeners International
• Grist: Environmental news and humor
• The Ethicurean, a good and funny blog about food
• Community Food Security Coalition
• The Food Times, a comprehensive digest of foodie news
• Tangstein's blog. Thoughtful thoughts about food and great healthy Chinese recipes. What's not to like?
• The Thrifty Chicks, a fun blog about thrift store shopping, another great way to reduce, reuse, recycle