was out at Downsview yesterday for the first time in a week and a half, and i really was struck by the ways this space was overgrown, and yet how the lunar calendar diagram was still sustaining itself, how alive with insects the entire place was, how the outlines of a ‘permaculture of least intervention’ revealed themselves…. it was truly a living classroom for me and completely reoriented (for at least the third time) how i imagine this place and what my practice will be here.

references include Masanobu Fukuoka’s ‘One Straw Revolution’, naturally, but also the intriguing ‘Landrace Gardening: Food Security Through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination’ by Joseph Lofthouse, which i read cover to cover over the break….. my desire for greater biodiversity in compost and soil is shared by Lofthouse who seeks the same thing in seeds and vegetables.