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RE: Using Phenology To Better Understand Your Land
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. ;)