Resources

  • Spotted Beebalm (Monarda puntuata)

    Pocket meadows for insects and birds

    Pocket meadows are multi-layered plant communities. They transform high-maintenance lawns into a four season, climate resilient sanctuaries. They restore biodiversity, reconnect fragmented habitats, build climate resilience, restore damaged soil ecology and bringing magic to your neighbourhood.

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  • Reimagine your yard

    Reimagine your yard

    Reimagining our yards is something each of us can do to help reconnect fragmented habitats, restore biodiversity, build climate resilience, and support our Earthly kin. Biodiversity: offer refuge and food...
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  • Imagining City in a Forest

    Imagining City in a Forest

    How might our imaginations help dream into being other possible worlds? Dream into being a City in a Forest? We've begun exploring this question as we collaborate with community to grow Little Forests. This is one experiment for imagining.
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  • Stewarding the forest

    Stewarding the forest

    Learning from Indigenous Knowledge, our approach to stewardship rests on a foundation of relationality. Our role, as humans, within the little forest community is to help maintain an ecological balance.
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  • Conversations with land, trees, and non-human others

    Conversations with land, trees, and non-human others

    How do we learn to listen to the land, shifting from human-centred to earth-centred ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world? What are some relational practices that connect us with the kinship that surrounds us, helping us see ourselves within a web of relations? How might we open our senses, beginning to learn the language of trees, birds, and insects? We've compiled this list of possibilities for entering into conversation with the natural world.
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  • How to prepare the forest floor

    How to prepare the forest floor

    How does seeing the forest floor is an interconnected living community, a web of relations, influence how we prepare the forest floor? In urban areas, too often we've treated soil as an object, as dirt. As a result, soil is often compacted, low in organic matter, and bacterially dominant.

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