Third-generation farmer turned ballroom dancer, artist, and photographer. Navigating life with Type 2 diabetes for 20 years. Sharing what I’ve learned along the way.
Food & Diet
Sunday Harvest — April 19, 2026 A note from the Gardener of Life Every good week on the farm had a shape to it. You didn’t just do things — you did them in order, for a reason, and by Friday you could look back and see how the pieces fit.
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Tuesday — The Long View The Art of Noticing Farming teaches you to pay attention or pay the consequences. You learn to read soil the way other people read faces. You watch the sky not for beauty but for information. You notice the color of a leaf, the behavior of water,
Food & Diet
GARDENER OF LIFE Three seeds planted this week. Here’s what grew. This week Gardener of Life put three ideas into the ground — one about what you eat, one about how you sleep, and one about the technology quietly watching over both. Separately, each one is worth your attention. Together,
GOL Launch Week WELCOME POSTApril 6 - 11 Twenty years ago today, I put down the bottle and picked up my life. Took control of my Type 2 diabetes. It seemed right to start something new on the same date — so welcome to Gardener of Life, where a retired dirt farmer
If you’ve been following along on Micro.blog, you may have noticed things look a little different around here. The schedule has changed. The platform lineup has shifted. And the name of this pillar — once called Farming & Agriculture — is now simply The Long View. Let me explain why,
When I first laid out the four pillars of Gardener of Life, Farming & Agriculture felt like the obvious one. I spent twenty-six years working California’s Sacramento Valley. Three generations of my family farmed that land. If anyone had the right to write about farming, it was me.
GARDENER OF LIFE — Food & Diet I spent twenty-six years farming in California’s Central Valley. We grew crops, we worked hard, and we used chemicals — a lot of them. Herbicides, pesticides, fungicides. It was just how farming was done. Then something shifted. A county farm advisor started talking
Welcome, and thank you for being here. My name is William. I’m a third-generation California farmer, a decades-long Apple user, a ballroom dancer, and someone who has spent a lifetime paying close attention to how we grow things — food, health, ideas, and ourselves. Gardener of Life is