Managed Meadow

The closest I’ve come to a plan was an experiment I made just this past summer.  I call it a “cultivated meadow” just because I need to call it something.  For one fairly well-defined space —...

Book Review: The Light Eaters

This book is journalism — the innovative, creative kind that rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s: Honouring its obligation to represent  people, ideas and events as accurately and fairly as possible, it show...

Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence is, first, explicitly what AI is not.  It is perhaps also a conclusion from current  research in biology or botany, studies that raise questions like “Are plants conscious?” or “Do plants feel pain?” “Do...

Master Gardener: Cultivating Change

If you keep a journal, you probably have your reasons, whether you consider yourself a writer or not. It is often said that such writing can be therapeutic, even transformational.  The recent film Master Gardener provides a...

Foliate Imagination

Near the beginning of his 2015 book The Cabaret of Plants: 40,000 Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination Richard Mabey presents a highly imaginative, and to me, a least, memorable conjecture. It’s...