ecology – The Oracle of Z

Hummingbird Musings OR Why can’t we see that the whole world is a bountiful garden?

Several bright red-pink flower composed of a series of smaller bracts and stamens that point up and down around a central flower head.

For the last month or so the Monardas, or bee balms, have been blooming at our urban homestead. We have five different cultivars sprinkled throughout our food forest, pollinator and herb gardens ranging in color from lilac through magenta to cherry red and in height from about 12 inches to 24. The leaves and flowersContinue reading “Hummingbird Musings OR Why can’t we see that the whole world is a bountiful garden?”

Agriculture: we’re doing it wrong

Humans have very short memories and attention spans. This is by design [not intelligent design, but evolutionary design, which is to say natural selection by the environment for fitness]. Humans evolved as an upright hominid species that exploits technology [which includes both physical technology and complex symbolic systems like language, culture and religion] to inhabitContinue reading “Agriculture: we’re doing it wrong”