31.10.25 - 307 - Gardening as Ideology and Daughters of Jerusalem

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 Can't quite believe I began on Wednesday...


The entire area has been managed...

Gardening as ideology. I began at 8 and finished at ten. It os mo longer a laen but a species-rich grassland. I started with the spiral and had to stop every now and then,  going back and covering caterpillars and gastropod eggs shining in the green dark. The Robin appeared,  a little more careless. I listened to Huartan. I counted the types of vegetation i saw. So much indoctrination about what gardens should be like. I remembered conversations about creating mosiacs of habitat that went on amongst the wardens... on a much larger scale of course. Mosiacs of habitat... lets do this and find out...
Imagine if i had taken a weed wacker to this? Everything would have been destroyed... the green feathery yarron, the seedlings of new visitors, the hibernating insects, the collector of dewdrops... all gone... for what? 

Replaced by monoculture. By the suffocating uniformity.  After two hours, next years habitat was ready.  A question held up to the future. My meadow will be managed as a meadow next year with even more wildlife than this year.

I cannot wait.


Saw this last night... it was the distillation of everything that was good in the human spirit... may we never give up fighting. Never. May the Israelis get whats coming to them. May the voice of the world shake and shake and shake the foundations of the disgusting and venal and corrupt. May the voices of the daughters all around our planet sing us to a better, kinder future.


I did buy the T-shirt

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