"There's just nothing like it." For thousands of years, a mysterious chalk figure measuring more than 360 feet across has been emblazoned on a hillside in Uffington, England. Known as the Uffington ...
As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...
AS a gardener, you wouldn’t plant a rhododendron in chalky soil. And when it comes to clematis – it ‘roots in the shade – scrambles up to the sun’ – while roses do well in ...
The geologists declared that the South’s bountiful fertility lay in its black, Cretaceous (literally “chalky”) soils. In the decades before the Civil War, white Americans created a ...
Chalk one up for weed barrier in the never-ending fight between gardeners and the ... or remove it all together." One of their photos showed newly purchased woven plastic, which they thought would do ...