Description
WILDCULTURING births you back into the culture of the Earth.
In The South Garden videos I explore an ancient Palaeolithic way of growing in diverse and abundant polyculture, that I call Wildculturing. In this regenerative way of dancing with the Earth I invite the wild into the garden as my partner. I host over 50 ‘wild’ self seeding annuals, biannuals and perennials. These wild ones grow on their own, in with, and along side the domestic vegetables we all know and love. Month by month I’ll show you how to grow, harvest and prepare a multitude of wild and naturalized plants from the garden for food and medicine. Some of these plants are indigenous to North America, but most are naturalized and have come in the wake of colonization, as it spread through Europe and then to the America’s. So most of these plants are throughout the northern hemisphere. Working with these colonial plants, to claim them and their gifts back, is truly the most de-colonizing action we can do. Rather than continually colonizing, seeking new horizons through other people’s exotic foods and herbs we are learning to become native to the place where we live. I choose to focus on this one of my nine gardens because it embodies the whole colonial legacy that we are all working with. This garden has been continually used for over 150 years, from 15 years before I bought the land Wilfred Miller stopped horse logging and keeping animals due to an injury. They kept the front garden going with chemical fertilizers (and who know what else) during those years. The land that I inherited was sucked dry of minerals and organic matter, as well as having an impoverished soil from so many years of neglect and abuse. So this south gardens story, like most of ours, starts from here. Because this place of loss and ignorance is where we’re at as a culture, nothing to be more fitting to learn about how to work with that and turned all that around into a rich healing and nurturing place.
