PLANT RELATIONS

Plants are relatives. Literally: we have common ancestors!
And like all relatives, we have a history. Complicated, sure, but also full of mutual care and co-evolution.

There are many camps of human-plant-practice: native-or-die, cultivar conisseurs, veggie bois. We tend to move between these camps rather than get too settled into one. While we tend towards selecting indigenous straight-species from locally gathered seeds for our own projects, we recognize that many introduced species are here to stay. The vibe is less often eradication and more often truce. The wineberry patch is there because the soil was so disturbed. We’ll carve a path around the patch for containment and pick as many berries as we can in early July.

We are happy to be alive in a time when so many new nurseries are opening up, in our neck of the woods and all over.
Here are a few that we patronize: Hummingbird Hill, Seedpocket, Silver Run Forest Farm, Moulton Hot Natives.

We have a soft spot for those plants with which the human community has a long history of mutual-care: plants that provide us with food, medicine, material. And for whom in turn we weed around them, bring them water and compost. We get a little jealous for their attention and bounty, but hey, everybody wants a peach (molds, mammals, birds), and it’s good to share.

If you would like to hire us to talk to our plants, know that we start with getting to know who is already there. We aren’t anti-weeding, we just want to know who is who before we start composting them.