Cornish Gardening with an American Accent
In the context of the journal Plantae, written by and for plant biologists, the contradictions look very clear, but surmountable: plants are organisms, like us in many ways; making the “next” step, here meaning...
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 —...
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 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...
It isn’t really a meadow. It’s a figure of speech. If a garden is someone’s conscious, intentional arrangement of plants in a space, then the arrangement could be taken as a “picture,” or expression, or...
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...
