Stacey Cornelius 🇨🇦
@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca  ·  activity timestamp last week

I've been feeling helpless in the face of waves hands everything but I finally realized I AM doing something. I've been doing something for 20+ years, in spite of limited time and energy and nearly no budget.

I'm creating habitat.

There was nothing here when I arrived in 2003. I had ambitious permaculture plans, but quickly realized a "proper" project was well beyond my resources. So I've done my best, and I'm working with what thrives here – humble plants like wild daisies and day lilies, and spirea.

Red clover, lupins, and dandelion help improve the soil. I planted apple, plum, and pear trees (the hazlenut aren't doing terribly well, so I hope I can figure them out).

The rock walls I built attract snakes. I have at least one hare (found some droppings in the garden just a few minutes ago). The birds love it here. I have a small vegetable garden, even though I'm not great at growing vegetables. But still.

The garden evolves as I do. This is one section near the compound gate, a.k.a. Outer Space as far as the cat's concerned.

#Gardening#Bloomscrolling

Video showing a wild garden, scanning left to right past campanula, lupins beginning to set seed, wild clover, day lilies, and a riotous vegetable garden.
Video showing a wild garden, scanning left to right past campanula, lupins beginning to set seed, wild clover, day lilies, and a riotous vegetable garden.