Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
photo essay: Vegetables: Drawing In (Huw Morgan/Dig Delve). This garden is situated in the UK so weather as well as plant species and varieties will vary from much of the U.S. (certainly northern New England) but the photos of the planting methods and structure of the garden caught my attention.
pamphlet: Beneficial Insects, Spiders, and Other Mini-Creatures in Your Garden: Who They Are and How to Get Them to Stay (Washington State University Extension). 21-page PDF pamphlet with photos, charts, and other helpful information about genera and species of largely beneficial predatory insects, including: praying mantid, predatory bugs, predatory beetles, earwigs, lacewings and snakeflies, predatory flies, parasitic flies, predatory thrips, ants, stinging wasps, parasitic wasps, predatory mites, spiders, harvestmen, and centipedes. Applicable to much of the U.S. and perhaps other places.
screen saver/video: 45 Minute Resting Place Beside the Soft Fern Stream (Landa Conservatory).
longish list: 21 projects for starting a wildlife garden: How to make a wildlife garden to help nature (Jack Wallington/Wild Way – UK). Including Find Your Wildflower, the one you love the most; Grow bird seed producing plants; Spiky shrubs; Grow perennial herbs and let them flower; Add bat boxes.
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