Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. Unless mentioned, all links should be free of paywalls.
article: Sweden’s Secret to Well-Being? Tiny Urban Gardens. Known as koloniträdgårdar, they provide city dwellers access to nature, fresh produce and community (Ingrid K. Williams/NYT – gifted article) Some with the sweetest little cottages! (h/t ED)
photo essay: The Early July [Cape Cod] Garden (Cathy Weston/Goldenrod Garden) Meadow with milkweeds and little bluestem, woods with flowering raspberry and black cohosh, some blue and yellow contrast.
essay with photos: A New Season (Karen Chapman/Le Jardinet) Chapman is moving from a 5-acre property with some shade to a 1/4-acre property with almost no shade in the same town (Duvall, WA, northeast of Seattle) and is considering what to bring with her from her gardens.
poem: A List of Things I Love: The poetry of everyday (Andrea Gibson/Things That Don’t Suck). Andrea Gibson died yesterday from ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2021 (13 Aug 1975 – 14 July 2025). They wrote this in March of this year. I loved it then and love it now. Their broken-open heart was covered in stretch marks.
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