Gardener of Life is one writer's ongoing conversation with food, health, and technology — seen through the eyes of a third-generation California farmer who spent 27 years growing things, and has spent the years since paying attention to what the research says and how it holds up against real life.

No credentials to display. No program to sell. Just careful reading, honest thinking, and a porch-conversation voice that tries to say what it actually found — not what you're supposed to conclude from it.

What You'll Find Here

Three topics, posted Monday, Wednesday, and Friday:

•   Food & Diet — What we eat, how we think about it, and where the science and the field agree or don't.

•   Health & Wellness — The body, how it works, and what actually helps versus what sounds like it should.

•   Apple & Technology — The tools we live with, from someone who has watched this industry since 1985 and still finds it worth questioning.

Every Tuesday, The Long View draws the week's three posts together into one piece — the best place to start if you want the full picture without committing to the daily rhythm.

Always Free to Read

Where Else to Find GOL

The Long View republishes on Substack every Thursday, rewritten for readers who are finding it for the first time. A fuller rewrite goes to Medium on Saturdays — same piece, new lede, written as a standalone. Day-to-day observations — articles worth reading, apps worth a look, recipes that caught my eye — live on Micro.blog, which also cross-posts to Bluesky and Mastodon.

If you want the full picture, Ghost is home base. Everything else points back here.

If You Want to Stay

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