William Willis
@wwillis.bsky.social
International educator, presenter, and gardener who would like to see the world grow better.
CBS 60 Minutes editor in chief pulled a story just before airing last Sunday. It was about the 250 Venezuelan nationals the Trump administration sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison. Like most 60 Minute stories, it is very good. Here is a link to it.
www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...
www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...
BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.
www.thereset.news
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
CBS 60 Minutes editor in chief pulled a story just before airing last Sunday. It was about the 250 Venezuelan nationals the Trump administration sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison. Like most 60 Minute stories, it is very good. Here is a link to it.
www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...
www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...
🌱 Garden fresh tomato and lentil soup with coconut milk.
October 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🌱 Garden fresh tomato and lentil soup with coconut milk.
🌱 Wonderful pomegranates in the garden. I picked a bucketful, but then discovered they weren't ripe yet! I then wrapped the remaining 40 pomegranates on the tree in protective fruit bags.
Maybe the bags will keep me from picking the pomegranates too early!
Maybe the bags will keep me from picking the pomegranates too early!
September 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🌱 Wonderful pomegranates in the garden. I picked a bucketful, but then discovered they weren't ripe yet! I then wrapped the remaining 40 pomegranates on the tree in protective fruit bags.
Maybe the bags will keep me from picking the pomegranates too early!
Maybe the bags will keep me from picking the pomegranates too early!
🌱Do you like tomatoes? My latest story on Medium. medium.com/gardening-bi...
Grow Great Tomatoes
Patio Gardening in Containers
medium.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
🌱Do you like tomatoes? My latest story on Medium. medium.com/gardening-bi...
🌱 Free link to my latest article on Medium. Please share your thoughts if you like it or suggest any improvements to the recipe. medium.com/one-table-on...
California Savory Grape Torte
Maybe An Original Recipe
medium.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🌱 Free link to my latest article on Medium. Please share your thoughts if you like it or suggest any improvements to the recipe. medium.com/one-table-on...
Creating a Spicy Gift Pot
Olla Irrigation, Low Maintenance, and Healthy Rewards
medium.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🌱 If the plants in my garden were on the TV show Survivor, the Aeonium arboreum, or “Tree Leek,” would be the winner.
It was not love at first sight. When...
Read more on the Medium publication PhotoSynthesis Press:
photosynthesispress.com/aeonium-arbo...
It was not love at first sight. When...
Read more on the Medium publication PhotoSynthesis Press:
photosynthesispress.com/aeonium-arbo...
Aeonium arboreum
A Stubborn Survivor
photosynthesispress.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
🌱 If the plants in my garden were on the TV show Survivor, the Aeonium arboreum, or “Tree Leek,” would be the winner.
It was not love at first sight. When...
Read more on the Medium publication PhotoSynthesis Press:
photosynthesispress.com/aeonium-arbo...
It was not love at first sight. When...
Read more on the Medium publication PhotoSynthesis Press:
photosynthesispress.com/aeonium-arbo...
Return of the Slime Mold.
“After my first article, the slime mold disappeared from my Aerobin composter. Did it die, or was it shy? I don’t know why. One day, it was there, and the next day, it was gone.” Read more on Medium:
medium.com/illumination...
“After my first article, the slime mold disappeared from my Aerobin composter. Did it die, or was it shy? I don’t know why. One day, it was there, and the next day, it was gone.” Read more on Medium:
medium.com/illumination...
May 14, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Return of the Slime Mold.
“After my first article, the slime mold disappeared from my Aerobin composter. Did it die, or was it shy? I don’t know why. One day, it was there, and the next day, it was gone.” Read more on Medium:
medium.com/illumination...
“After my first article, the slime mold disappeared from my Aerobin composter. Did it die, or was it shy? I don’t know why. One day, it was there, and the next day, it was gone.” Read more on Medium:
medium.com/illumination...
“I had been in dicey situations before, such as neo-nazis in Germany and pirates in Malaysia. But this officer of the law looked like he wanted to beat the crap out of me.” — medium.com/the-memoiris...
Remembering the Smell of Burning Rubber
A Guardian of Civilization Decided I Was a Troublemaker in Athens in October 2011
medium.com
April 16, 2024 at 7:45 PM
“I had been in dicey situations before, such as neo-nazis in Germany and pirates in Malaysia. But this officer of the law looked like he wanted to beat the crap out of me.” — medium.com/the-memoiris...
Free link to an article about China in 1983. “We belonged to the foreign journalists’ eating society ‘Bejing Wei-Jing.’ Each month, a member would find a restaurant, arrange a menu, and secretly invite the other members to the dinner. Some of the meals were surprising.” — medium.com/one-table-on...
Favorite Foods Around the World
China
medium.com
February 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Free link to an article about China in 1983. “We belonged to the foreign journalists’ eating society ‘Bejing Wei-Jing.’ Each month, a member would find a restaurant, arrange a menu, and secretly invite the other members to the dinner. Some of the meals were surprising.” — medium.com/one-table-on...
🌱 Feel the Burn. “The white fleshy insides of hot peppers are rich in capsaicinoids, an alkaloid that bonds to your burn/heat receptors. When you come into contact with capsaicinoids, your body thinks it is on fire.” — medium.com/gardening-bi...
Feel the Burn
Hot Peppers in the Garden
medium.com
October 11, 2023 at 10:04 PM
🌱 Feel the Burn. “The white fleshy insides of hot peppers are rich in capsaicinoids, an alkaloid that bonds to your burn/heat receptors. When you come into contact with capsaicinoids, your body thinks it is on fire.” — medium.com/gardening-bi...
🌱 “Little did I know that she was watching me too. One morning I noticed her attempt at a picture of me. Wow, some spider!” —Free link:
medium.com/illumination...
medium.com/illumination...
Orb Weavers
The Spiders of the Night
medium.com
September 28, 2023 at 9:19 PM
🌱 “Little did I know that she was watching me too. One morning I noticed her attempt at a picture of me. Wow, some spider!” —Free link:
medium.com/illumination...
medium.com/illumination...
Consider this the next time you are in the bathtub. “Why do your fingers and toes go from plump to wrinkled when you soak in water?”
Free link to my article on Medium. medium.com/illumination...
Free link to my article on Medium. medium.com/illumination...
Are Wrinkles Natural?
Yes, and they may be useful too.
medium.com
September 23, 2023 at 4:16 PM
Consider this the next time you are in the bathtub. “Why do your fingers and toes go from plump to wrinkled when you soak in water?”
Free link to my article on Medium. medium.com/illumination...
Free link to my article on Medium. medium.com/illumination...
🌱 “It paused on my upper lip as if carefully choosing its next action, ‘Door number one, or door number two?’ I could feel the antennae check each opening. The twin caves of my nose were irresistible.” — A gardening adventure!
Free Link - medium.com/illumination...
Free Link - medium.com/illumination...
Bee Little, Bee Good
The true story of a bee trying to get in my head.
medium.com
September 17, 2023 at 5:58 AM
🌱 “It paused on my upper lip as if carefully choosing its next action, ‘Door number one, or door number two?’ I could feel the antennae check each opening. The twin caves of my nose were irresistible.” — A gardening adventure!
Free Link - medium.com/illumination...
Free Link - medium.com/illumination...
🌱 I have been interested in raising the garden to a higher level, but I had been put off by the price of pre-made tables and carts, and by the cost of plant-friendly lumber for the raised garden “box”.
Then it came to me...
Free link to the story on Medium: medium.com/townhouse-ga...
Then it came to me...
Free link to the story on Medium: medium.com/townhouse-ga...
Create a Movable Feast on Your Patio, Part 1
An easy to make raised bed that moves.
medium.com
September 15, 2023 at 7:13 PM
🌱 I have been interested in raising the garden to a higher level, but I had been put off by the price of pre-made tables and carts, and by the cost of plant-friendly lumber for the raised garden “box”.
Then it came to me...
Free link to the story on Medium: medium.com/townhouse-ga...
Then it came to me...
Free link to the story on Medium: medium.com/townhouse-ga...
🍽️ @clarabelle.xyz “This was similar to the way I learned to make sweet and sour sauce. It was many years ago while on a snorkeling adventure that included pirates in the South China Sea.” Free link to my latest story on Medium
medium.com/gardening-bi...
medium.com/gardening-bi...
Spicy Peanut Shrimp
Spicy Peanut Shrimp Noodles recipe featuring a sauce made from peanut butter, Sriracha, and fresh ginger. Served with rice noodles.
medium.com
September 14, 2023 at 8:24 PM
🍽️ @clarabelle.xyz “This was similar to the way I learned to make sweet and sour sauce. It was many years ago while on a snorkeling adventure that included pirates in the South China Sea.” Free link to my latest story on Medium
medium.com/gardening-bi...
medium.com/gardening-bi...
#AddGardener 🌱 “When the scale first arrived in California, it had no natural predator. It nearly wiped out the citrus industry. Citrus growers tried to control the pest with insecticides. They did not work.” Free Link to the story on Medium.
medium.com/gardening-bi...
medium.com/gardening-bi...
Ahoy Matey! You Have Barnacles on Your Citrus!
That is what it looked like on my Seville Orange tree. A serious, but solvable problem.
medium.com
September 14, 2023 at 2:51 PM
#AddGardener 🌱 “When the scale first arrived in California, it had no natural predator. It nearly wiped out the citrus industry. Citrus growers tried to control the pest with insecticides. They did not work.” Free Link to the story on Medium.
medium.com/gardening-bi...
medium.com/gardening-bi...
“Incan farmers were given islands where they could collect the guano with the enlightened rule: No harvesting during nesting season. Guano is the Quechua word for dung.” A behind-the-paywall free link to my article on Medium —
medium.com/townhouse-ga...
medium.com/townhouse-ga...
A Curious Tale of Soil Augmentation
Sometimes, because of the crops we grow, soil need help. But Fritz Haber took us out of the Guano Age and in to the Age of Chemical…
medium.com
September 14, 2023 at 5:51 AM
“Incan farmers were given islands where they could collect the guano with the enlightened rule: No harvesting during nesting season. Guano is the Quechua word for dung.” A behind-the-paywall free link to my article on Medium —
medium.com/townhouse-ga...
medium.com/townhouse-ga...