A home for Whimsical Gardens

June 11, 2009

Home on the garden

to define simple objectives.

our place.

a wreck of a building, restorable workshop, a canning kitchen.

2 acres of rested land, streams, lots of trees,

wild turkeys

deer, dozens kinds of birds.

Baltimore Orioles, Cedar Wax Wings.

Abandoned fruit trees.

A dozen different crops we can simply tend,

restore, harvest and market without planting anything new.

Long silences in the Garden.

surrounded by abandoned fruit farms, old barns and houses.

we arrive with construction, trades and farming skills

seniors in gardening atmospheres.
"hortico-therapy" for fun and canning adventures.

granmas in the kitchen

First soil tests,

reading the vegetation,

the medicinal and cooking herbs,

the salveagable fruit trees,

planning raised beds,

high tunnel and mini greenhouse frames.
an old pickup truck.

One we can fix ourselves

to haul manure from the horse farms, old hay,

salveagable lumber from the falling apart buildings in the area.

Lands was once 85 % of Ontario's food

now subdivisions, strip malls, casinos, expressways,

mansions , golf courses

an unconscious species

so dysfunctional

the opportunity to be useful

a whimsical affair.
Mongrel Puppies back on the land.

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in global brain internet attention deficit disorder
a simple dream of gardening
at odds with ruling paradigm of "real estate".
where to start?
the simply defined gardener
to unravel the personal questions

to stay sane and moderately rational
family realities in the unfolding world
the Gordian knot of language and action
redesigning the family wheels of togetherness
in age of rampant individualism
the conflict of values not acknowledged in politics.

the shock and awe
the dereliction of duty
in the lush farmland
the wanton destruction of pastoral realms.
memory of what was

measures and details the forensics of the slaughter

seeking a removed but passionate perspective

of experientially challenged professional class

in full dissonance

a species at odds

with the planet

a species with god gifted genetic genius pool

the SangReal unfolding.