What are you willing to do?

Everything we do, and all decisions we make, must be in the context of an unpredictable and brittle future. Climate change is creating a world less hospitable to living systems as we know them. Bio-diversity collapse is making resilience harder. Industrial agriculture nitrogen cycles are severely compromising the oceans. Glaciers and ice shelfs are melting. Weather patterns are becoming more extreme. Healthy soils are blowing and washing away. Are the shifts we need to make possible? Working with your land is a long term commitment of love, time, money, and more love. Some people can hire help, some people love to get dirty themselves, and some prefer a combination of the two. I thrive working with people who see their projects as a life long learning experience, and as creating a sanctuary for all living things. As a chance to nurture one’s curiosity, an opportunity for new kinds of relationships. A give and take. A lot of successes, and a handful of failures. We are in uncharted waters, as climate change, bio-diversity loss, hydrological cycles become more extreme, and fresh water becomes more scarce.

What are you willing to do?

What can you give of yourself, to the land, to your specific ecological systems? Will you build a legacy landscape? How many living things can you engage with along the way? What investments are you able to make? Can you grow some of your own food? Will you reduce your waste stream, creating a circular economy on your land? Can you make a conservation corridor, a pollinator pathway? Can you see 35 years, 50 years, 100 years into the future of your land and stewardship?