You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Using Phenology To Better Understand Your Land
This post was super inspiring and syncronistic! I was pondering the phenological cues (if that could be said) just this morning. Wondering whats happening when the walnuts sap starts running, what cues to look for when the Paw paw buds breakers...
I'm really inspired by the August sketch/note that you shared, what a fantastic way to encapsulate time and space. Resteemed
Thanks, @mountainjewel! What a lovely comment.
The beauty of studying your land's cues like this is that it builds up understanding over time (something I know anecdotally, but not yet personally as I've not even lived here a year!) Maybe you won't know what correlates with the sap running or the Pawpaws budding (oh, how I love pawpaws!) but after a few years, maybe patterns will become clear. Or, if there's a year where things are totally off, maybe that's a year to pay attention to! (Have you ever read The Long Winter , part of the Little House Series? The book starts with Pa noticing a ton of weird phenological cues that the winter is going to be bad...)
It seems it's really the process that important, more than the facts. Developing kinship with land. Haven't read the series but it is my sisters fav!
Exactly. Its my secret hope that getting other people interested in looking at their land like this will lead to just encouraging others to just go out and look more. The data-collection is a nice scaffold, but a scaffold only. ;)