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