Our new front yard: history
...cape, and really, our relationship to the world as whole. While we enjoyed vegetable gardening, we decided we didn’t need to do so much of it. It began to seem competitive and extractive. By extractive I mean we found it hard to give back to the soil as much as we were removing. It was hard to make enough compost. We were relying on outside sources more than I liked. One of those resources was water–lest I forget to mention it, we’re in the fourth...
