Fairy dust

What I talk about when I talk about sequestering carbon, growing veggies in moon soil and the old but new magic of cream of tartar.

There’s a lot of chatter about how we might get to net-zero carbon emissions. On a recent episode of “This American Life,” a 7th grader from the Sierra Foothills who evacuated during the Camp Fire blaze in 2018, repeated a lesson from his science teacher: “The carbon in the atmosphere is going up and up, and we need to do something about it,” he chirped…