Garden as a Process: Working with Nature
In our task-driven lives, it’s tempting to treat everything like a checklist. Paint the room. Clean the garage. Done. But gardens aren’t like painted walls. They’re not static, finished projects. Gardens live, breathe, grow, and change—sometimes in ways we don’t expect.
Instead of trying to control every aspect, what if we approached the garden as a process?
New Old School Tool For Decompacting Soil
Over my first year of gardening for other people, one of the biggest internal conflicts I have had is how to balance the need to amend and de-compact urban soils vs minimizing disturbance of the existing soil which has the potential to ruin soil structure and reinvigorate the seed bank (causing previously dormant seeds to germinate and cause weed issues).