Writing
Art of Olive Green
“Towards Art, an Ethics & a Laugh”
This was Alex’s personal blog, from Feb 2011 to Dec 2014.
February, 2011 - “The Role of Art in Chaos Pt. 1: Beckett”
March, 2011 - “Fabrication”, “Ringston: Crops of Better Ringtones”, “Foaming at the Mouth”
April, 2011 - “Swan Song”, “Growing Paints”, “NYC Anarchist Book Fair & Art Exhibit”
May, 2011 - “A Greener Clean?”, “Sculpture Has Taught Me…”, “Demilitarized Zone”
Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture
February, 2007 - “The Black Plague?”
The Wild Geese
Exploring the Heritage of the Irish Worldwide
April, 2013 - “Black 47’s Larry Kirwan: At ‘Sixteen’ Still a Voice for the Underdog”
Business Traveler
“4 Hours Mumbai and Singapore”
Find Magazine
Shelton-Mason County Journal
Dedicated to the citizens of Mason County, Washington since 1886
Alex began writing for the Journal in August 2020, first under the Harstine Island News heading. From September 17, 2020, the column was called Peninsula Permaculture, running weekly, later biweekly, until August 2022.
August 6, 2020 - “What do you compost? You may be a permaculturist”
August 13, 2020 - “In defense of slug tea”
August 20, 2020 - “Till when? Explaining the devil we know”
August 27, 2020 - “Nitrogen: The fix is in”
September 3, 2020 - “The comforts of comfrey”
September 10, 2020 - “Biochar is slash pile gold”
September 17, 2020 - “Groundnuts: What’s in a name?”
September 24, 2020 - “Green tomato blues”
October 1, 2020 - “Who-gelculture?”
October 8, 2020 - “Oaktober: Nailing colors to the mast”
October 15, 2020 - “Breaking the mold”
October 22, 2020 - “By any other name”
October 29, 2020 - “Pawpaws — mythical fruit”
November 5, 2020 - “Crops that have it covered during winter”
November 12, 2020 - “Yacón for the win”
November 19, 2020 - “Chestnuts — A heritage saved”
November 26, 2020 - “The grapes of worth”
December 3, 2020 - “On the shoulders of giants”
December 10, 2020 - “Coastal redwood, sequoia replace Douglas fir”
December 17, 2020 - “Truly renewable woodstuffs”
December 24, 2020 - “Getting the wet cut”
December 31, 2020 - “Rising from ashes”
January 7, 2021 - “Seaweed-n’-feed”
January 14, 2021 - “Composting is hot!”
January 21, 2021 - “Cellar in place: Oca”
January 28, 2021 - “Dust thou art”
February 11, 2021 - “SCOBY doo! Soda does a body good”
February 18, 2021 - “Ice be dammed”
February 25, 2021 - “Your worst beers”
March 4, 2021 - “Hello, shellow brick road”
March 11, 2021 - “Not a bedtime story”
March 18, 2021 - “Seeds of change”
May 27, 2021 - “Escargot cult”
June 10, 2021 - “Mow them down”
June 17, 2021 - “Three in one”
June 24, 2021 - “Tea for two thousand”
July 1, 2021 - “The forgiving tree”
July 8, 2021 - “Potted plants”
July 15, 2021 - “Land at rest”
July 22, 2021 - “A cut off the old stock”
July 29, 2021 - “Turning plows into swords into plows”
August 5, 2021 - “Wasp-wasted”
August 12, 2021 - “Feeding fernsy”
August 19, 2021 - “Home is where the figs grow”
August 26, 2021 - “Li’l livestock”
September 2, 2021 - “When you see berries”
September 9, 2021 - “Everybody loves the sunchokes”
September 16, 2021 - “Fifty-year spinach”
September 23, 2021 - “Sucker born every minute”
September 30, 2021 - “Convergence season”
October 7, 2021 - “Respect your elders”
October 14, 2021 - “Hang on slopey”
October 21, 2021 - “Collaborative convergence”
October 28, 2021 - “Big-leaf lupine: Our native invasive”
November 4, 2021 - “Growing mushrooms”
November 11, 2021 - “A plague of locusts”
November 18, 2021 - “Year in review”
November 25, 2021 - “Tiny mutualism”
December 2, 2021 - “Get right with nitrogen”
December 9, 2021 - “Knowing your nematodes”
December 16, 2021 - “To everything turn, turn, turn”
December 23, 2021 - “In proportion”
December 30, 2021 - “Considering gypsum”
January 6, 2022 - “Dammed if you do”
January 13, 2022 - “What is the soil food web?”
January 20, 2022 - “Compost extract: Liberation versus libertinage”
January 27, 2022 - “Gnatty dread”
February 3, 2022 - “Take a forest bath”
February 10, 2022 - “Carver: A man ahead of these times”
February 17, 2022 - “If you build it, they will come” (Winter 2022 Real Estate Guide)
February 17, 2022 - “On-ramps”
February 24, 2022 - “Hotting up”
March 3, 2022 - “‘Tis seed season”
March 10, 2022 - “In the meadow”
March 17, 2022 - “Welcome sign of spring”
March 24, 2022 - “Drill baby, drill”
April 7, 2022 - “Between two ferns”
April 21, 2022 - “The morel of the story”
May 5, 2022 - “In praise of fire”
May 19, 2022 - “Nature bats last”
June 2, 2022 - “Decolonizing permaculture”
June 30, 2022 - “Keeping the culture in agriculture”
July 14, 2022 - “Where there isn’t smoke …”
July 28, 2022 - “Fun with Styrofoam”