{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"281 - Kale, Servant or Master","description":" Why does kale get to just sit there and grow, doing the only thing it really wants to do, while I have to toil away, tilling the soil, planting the seeds, watering the garden, and weeding away any competitors? By offering up its tasty, nutritious leaves, the kale has seduced me into catering to its every whim. \u201c\u2026the garden suddenly appeared before me in a whole new light, the manifold delights it offered to the eye and nose and tongue no longer quite so innocent or passive. All these plants, which I\u2019d always regarded as the objects of my desire, were also, I realized, subjects, acting on me, getting me to do things for them they couldn\u2019t do for themselves,\u201d Michael Pollan wrote in his excellent book, The Botany of Desire. ","author_name":"Natural Connections","author_url":"http:\/\/cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com\/website","html":"