What I’ve learned.

The interaction between human and place is everything - literally. Fundamentally, there is nothing more important than looking after the place in which you inhabit. Luckily for us, In our environment, all of the climatic algorithms have been set up to run, free of human interaction. I’ve found that studying these natural process is one of the most important things we as a species can and will ever learn. When working with nature, a level of meaning reveals itself to you that goes beyond personal gain or enlightenment. We are inexplicably linked to our environment. We are creatures of place.

Too large and you’ll get left behind.

The size of any natural system under your custodianship, will determine the amount of meaningful influence your can cast upon it. If your looking to create thriving life, abundance and even surplus then you need to think small scale. This allows for greater lessons to be learned, despite the size of your lab. The need to feed need not be a matter of greed.

The garden is a classroom with ALL of the lessons.

Everything that has been determined to be of use in our children’s school curriculum, no matter what continent you live on, can be taught with greater depth and meaning in the space of a square foot garden. If you learn to look at your garden through the lens of a librarian, you will see a lesson on every leaf you turn.

Nature embodies ancient wisdom.

The economies that exist in the natural environment are complex and well developed. They are the result of eons of iteration founded in feedback loops so immense its hard to believe how they even exist. Evolving its robust algorithms over large spans of time, means we likely always be behind the break. What ever it decides to provide is what we will take.