garden fertility comes out of “the discarded waste of our lives.” Kylie Tseng, a young climate activist I know, inscribed on her well-built compost bin, “Death is never an ending in nature.” And because a garden is always a place of becoming, to make and tend one is a gesture of hope, that these seeds planted will sprout and grow, this tree will bear fruit, that spring will come, and so, probably, will some kind of harvest. It’s an activity deeply invested in the future.
garden fertility comes out of “the discarded waste of our lives.” Kylie Tseng, a young climate activist I know, inscribed on her well-built compost bin, “Death is never an ending in nature.” And because a garden is always a place of becoming, to make and tend one is a gesture of hope, that these seeds planted will sprout and grow, this tree will bear fruit, that spring will come, and so, probably, will some kind of harvest. It’s an activity deeply invested in the future.
