This Saturday, October 22, I will be teaching two sessions on garden design at the annual Austin School Garden Network Conference. Click through to see the Prezi I put together for the conference.
When I first started teaching gardening I stumbled across Paul Krafel’s Seeing Nature, and it was a revelation to me. Through a series of personal nature parables he shifts our perception in order to reveal the subtle flows, cycles, patterns and personalities that inhabit the living world around us. Sand fleas, a deer carcass, vulture flight, tundra flora and water erosion (among other things) all have something to teach us, if only we are willing to look deeply and listen.
In order to lay the foundation for a discussion of ecology, we’ve been discussing the word “relationship” in the kindergarten class. Last week we talked about the general meaning relating to the garden, but focused on those relationships close at hand, such as family or friends that I felt the kids could grasp. As an [...]
Take a look at this great animation of the past and projected movements of the Earth’s continents.
