After a year spent in observation of the site and reading Nature of Order Book 1-4 by Christopher Alexander within the Building Beauty Program, the following narrative and images are of our garden unfolding:
Fallowing and finding our wind chime
In April of 2022, fallowing, as in plowing, for our Cultivated Nature Garden (CNG) took place. The Secretary of the Interior (SOI) Archeologist on-site recovered a relatively large Petoskey stone called scientifically Hexagonaria percarinata from within the garden. A Petoskey stone is a fossil of coral that lived around 350 million years ago. Individuals who wish to control the narrative sometimes say that if the stone isn't polished, it shouldn't be called a Petoskey stone but should be called by its scientific name. Yet, Michiganders next to never call a vernacular Petoskey stone polished or not by the scientific name. Petoskey comes from the Odawa word "petosega" meaning "where the sun shines through the clouds."
Additionally, there is an oral history of this word's origin told by Odawa people that support the word's transition from indigenous ancestry into a vernacular text. The rock remains on-site and is next to the Wild Cheery Tree on the west side of the garden. The Wild Cherry is botanically called Prunus avium. The stone is viewable from the entrance to the CNG and the newly built accessible pathway. The stone may or may not have been used as decoration in pass gardens by previous owners before the Farm became part of the US Department of the Interior's National Park Service Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The stone is protected being in our garden by Michigan state law, Public Act 173 of 1929 and United States Federal Law.
Additionally, there is an oral history of this word's origin told by Odawa people that support the word's transition from indigenous ancestry into a vernacular text. The rock remains on-site and is next to the Wild Cheery Tree on the west side of the garden. The Wild Cherry is botanically called Prunus avium. The stone is viewable from the entrance to the CNG and the newly built accessible pathway. The stone may or may not have been used as decoration in pass gardens by previous owners before the Farm became part of the US Department of the Interior's National Park Service Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The stone is protected being in our garden by Michigan state law, Public Act 173 of 1929 and United States Federal Law.
The Snake and Our Garden
A story about What Max Dashu and Suppressed Histories has taught me.
Newborn Red Dress
Flags and and Grapevine Trellis