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On becoming rural

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Claudia

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down life as we knew it in Canada in March 2020, and UBC shifted all teaching and meetings to online…

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Food chain

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Claudia

Yesterday morning, just back from the earliest morning dog walk, my partner said: “We interrupted the food chain in action.” Walking toward the gate, they…

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Compost diary

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Claudia

  The diary entries below were written for the edited collection Ecologies of Study: A Book of Secrets. In addition to the hard copy version…

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When it rains, it pours

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Claudia

On Salt Spring Island, summers often come with droughts, while other months, especially in spring and fall, can see heavy rainfall. While we hear talk…

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A wasp deficiency

Posted on June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 by Claudia

One of the permaculture principles is to “turn problems into solutions.” The idea behind this principle is that the problem often contains the kernel of…

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Hummingbird encounters

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Claudia

Recently, one of my students encouraged me to read the chapter, “Training in the Contact Zone: Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility,”…

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Mapping the field

Posted on March 19, 2021March 21, 2021 by Claudia

In my daily work, “mapping the field” is a figure of speech, a spatial metaphor in which “field” refers to a scholarly field or field…

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Designer strawberries?

Posted on February 7, 2021March 19, 2021 by Claudia

In past years, we have had a few handfuls of strawberries from our own garden, but no yield to write home about. This was no…

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River

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Claudia

I used to dream about rivers. More specifically, I used to dream that I was floating down a river. Sometimes, the water was a milky…

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Gathering 2.0

Posted on May 13, 2020May 19, 2020 by Claudia

Although I don’t remember if it was in a history or a geography class, or perhaps both, I do distinctly recall learning in school that…

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