True Liberation: Dual Purpose. This is the first in a series of articles that will be practical on the Facebook page and much more in-depth revolution on the blog.** From the outset, (the revolutionary educators) efforts must coincide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for mutual humanization - Paulo Freire. ** I love most of my clients (note the honesty in that comment, and of course, you personally are one that I love). I had visitors at The Farm last weekend, folks whom I had not met before. They came to take ducks to a new home with a pond. In the course of touring the garden and nursery, C mulled over the elements of the plants, the garden, and then said, I have to have things that are dual purpose. The comment nailed it. One of the most important purposes of liberation gardening (my new name for my school of landscaping) is that as much as reasonably possible everything will have a dual purpose: buffaloberry and caragana provide food, wind/snowbreak, nitrogen-laced leaf mulch, deer-resistance for the more tender plants on the leeward side of an installation, and wild rose provides density for windbreaks, gorgeous tasty flowers, thorny protection, and some of the most wonderful fruit in the form of rosehips with maximum vitamin C, perfect for syrups on pancakes or for coughs....a warm, rosy, honey-tasting product. Cs comment placed us on the same level of learning for a moment from which we moved to expanding that sense of what the dual purpose of different plants can be. Dual Purpose: Info Point - when planning your installations always please consider plants that fit into the whole environment of the site in multiple ways. If you want to reach a little deeper into the concept of liberation gardening I will be adding a post at the blog site in the next few days. Right now there are some photos and a couple of beginning postings at: tarafarmandnursery.wordpress/ I still have a few buffaloberry, lots of caragana and wild rose in the Nursery. If you would like to set up a visit to The Farm, send me a text to 262-8043. Thank you all for being there. Namaste
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:12:38 +0000
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