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.
essay with photos: How to Visit Bar Island Without Getting Stranded (The Little Blog of Magic) It’s been a while (30 years?) since we’ve done this but it’s fun and if you’re near Acadia National Park (Maine), I recommend it.
essay with photos: Four Days in the Cove: A Field Dispatch from the Cullowhee Native Plant Conference (Jonas Meyer/ Woodlanders) Spend some virtual time exploring flora in the western Carolina Appalachians and learning a bit of what’s going on in the field of native plants. Especially check out section III, The Serpentine Barrens, one of my favourite terrains. And open their full species day-by-day list.
slides/quotes: Ordinary Abundance. “Edward Bellamy once imagined that music on demand would be ‘the limit of human felicity.’ A modern apartment is full of things that once drew the same kind of awe.” Charmingly presented list of modern conveniences, luxuries, some might say necessities, room by room, with quotes about each, including “light without fire,” “reading after the eyes fail,” “clean water on tap,” “a museum on the wall,” “fruit from afar.”
essay: your tiny guide to romanticising september (Hannah Bay/midnight crumbs) including spending a few minutes looking back through evidence of the year already lived for clues about your life right now, and take a sept. field trip a little outside your normal radius.
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