Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1 April 2023 at 14:33Reply to @nick_routledge

And as for a season summary? Let's just say I'm relieved this wasn't the winter the industrial food system took a tumble. I've always 'known' that getting away from shade is an essential requirement for successful winter cropping. This year's experience?

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Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing · 29 Mar 2023

@charlesdowding After many successful years, I just winter-cropped into a semi-shaded location for the first time. A walking meditation, then, on the cultural ecology of a late-winter greenhouse in Oregon. (Longer than 'The Clash', shorter than 'Led Zepp': 10.39 mins.) facebook.com/groups/agrariansharingnetwork/posts/3372403433008724/

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Quoted by16 Oct 2023@Kuwadanouen end/ Clearly, such trans-cultural, co-evolutionary syntheses illuminate the functional ecology of authentic, planetary solidarity and resilience coming to ground - the genuine integrity of a more-than-human intelligence and power conjoined with, uniting and, yes, saving us all.Quoted by20 Apr 2023@GardenNan There's also an entire class of leaf Brassicas - 'hunger gap kales - selected to produce lots of growth and florets lateish in the spring. Pentland Brig, a classic of the form. We are just beginning that harvest where B. rapa florets have been in full swing for a few weeks, now.