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From the Wild Green Yonder

Fall has never been my favorite season. Going back to school, shivering in the first snowfall, darker and darker evenings, watching the trees become stripped and gangly… it all seemed so depressing. But as I’ve slowly learned to listen to nature’s patterns, I’m starting to see autumn as a time of precarious abundance, a time when we can live off summer’s b… Continue

From the Wild Green Yonder

One of permaculture's hallmarks is polyculture: the mixed cultivation of a wide variety of bioregionally-appropriate species. In a process called "guild building", permaculture designers select plants that will mutually enhance each others' growth while providing their human stewards with a yield. In the classic Native American polyculture of maize, beans, and squash, for in… Continue

cross-posted from The Wild Green Yonder. To see the system in action and more, come to this month's Transition Denver potluck at the Ruckus Refinery on July 26.

As Michael and I were scheming together on the design of the new… Continue

In the last week, I've come across a couple articles in my daily overdose of newsfeeds that I found uncommonly, well, human. Rather than inundate me with grim statistics or get me all riled up with innovative solutions, both of these essays struck the non-cerebral parts of me in a refreshingly poignant sort of way.

I realized that, just like the snow that's slowly melting outside my window, this kind of writing has b… Continue