“Water is Life”. We say this phrase all the time. This whole planet is utterly interdependent on Water for its survival. Despite this, our actions say otherwise; we have greatly degraded our relationship with this element for our convenience. To “pave it, pipe it, pollute it” has been our modus operandi for a long time now. So, the question naturally becomes: How do we restore it?  No single person nor single landscape will resolve our problems, but we can each play our part.

Biodiversity is as an intricate webbing of life. It is the direction that Mother Earth wants to take things – the highest order of being and complexity. Keystone Species play a huge role in that. I preface this by saying that the notion of Keystone species is a fundamentally Western way of thinking of the natural world; this idea of separateness – this is a Keystone species, that is not. This is not to say that Indigenous peoples and Earth-based cultures do not have names for

Happy Fall and rains... As we transition into this season and the trees keep dropping their beautiful leaves, I have a couple...