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Dirt Wise is an ad-free, weekly publication about living with plants. It’s a newsletter, which means issues arrive in your inbox every week, ready to be consumed at your leisure. Print it, read it on your computer or, more comfortably, on a smart phone or iPad. You can also read directly from the Dirt Wise archive online.
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DIRT WISE focuses on indoor plants, but subjects range far and wide, with a particular interest in how plants work. The internet is full of ‘plant tips’ and instead of providing more of this, the essays dig deeper and try to be a bit more Dirt Wise.
The author of Dirt Wise is Richard DeGrandpre.
He has lived on and off in Auckland for sixteen years. He earned a Ph.D. in psychopharmacology at the University of Vermont. He is the author of several books, including Ritalin Nation (1999) and The Cult of Pharmacology (2005). His freelance articles have appeared in The Sciences, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, AlterNet, Reason, and Cerebrum. His scholarly and scientific papers have appeared in a range of fields, from pharmacology and economics to psychology and philosophy.
Before hitting the shores of NZ, Richard lived in Vancouver, BC, where he was a senior editor at the popular magazine Adbusters (aka, the “journal” of the mental environment).
These days Richard focuses more on his hobbies: ceramics and plants. He is the owner of the indoor plant store MONSTERA and the nursery BONSAI OF NEW ZEALAND. As a potter he focuses on making plant-pots under the name MONSTER POTS. Feel free to scan in below and check them out.
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