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Field notes, dispatches, growing guides, and photo essays from the warehouse, the valley, and wherever else we end up. Published whenever we have something worth saying.

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Dispatch · Mar 2026 · 12 min read

THE LAST A+B.

How a two-part nutrient line outlasted four owners, two warehouses, and a divorce.

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[ field notes · highway-238 ]

FIELD NOTES

Feb 2026 · 6 min

A FIELD GUIDE TO HIGHWAY 238.

Where the valley narrows. Where the radio dies. Where the lights start.

[ growing guide · ph-meter ]

GROWING GUIDE

Feb 2026 · 8 min

YOUR PH METER IS LYING TO YOU.

Calibration, drift, and why we still keep three.

[ photo essay · ruch-warehouse ]

PHOTO ESSAY

Jan 2026 · 4 min

INSIDE THE RUCH WAREHOUSE.

Pictures from the back room. The pegboard. The shelf marked DO NOT TOUCH.

[ editorial · we-have-aliens ]

EDITORIAL

Jan 2026 · 3 min

ON HAVING ALIENS.

A short essay in which we do not actually explain anything.

[ field notes · reservoirs ]

FIELD NOTES

Dec 2025 · 7 min

RESERVOIRS WE HAVE KNOWN.

Twenty years, six tanks, one reluctant pump.

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