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A New Garden Journal
posted Thursday, 11 December 2008
GARDEN UNBOUND is a garden journal (b. Dec. 11, 2008) recording many of the activities in our residential city garden, including its connections to the larger world, situating it contextually in time, space, and knowledge...past, present, and future.
Although we are situated in Colorado, USA, we see our garden as one of many in a vast archipelago of non-commercial, residential gardens...not only in this country and state, but all over the planet since time out of mind.
This journal is just a journal; we simply want to keep track of what we are doing and be able to find information when we need it. Our goals for it are very limited. We do not mean it to be an authority on any topic. We are not trying to show what great gardeners we are, or to say what others should do, or demonstrate our knowledge or expertise in any area. The views we hold are tentative, as are all our garden practices. We make no claims whatsoever. In fact, we eschew authority and dogmatism in any form and in any area of life. We offer it as a public document to help others in their own exploration...the questions, confusion, changes of mind and direction: everything.
This journal is just a journal; we simply want to keep track of what we are doing and be able to find information when we need it. Our goals for it are very limited. We do not mean it to be an authority on any topic. We are not trying to show what great gardeners we are, or to say what others should do, or demonstrate our knowledge or expertise in any area. The views we hold are tentative, as are all our garden practices. We make no claims whatsoever. In fact, we eschew authority and dogmatism in any form and in any area of life. We offer it as a public document to help others in their own exploration...the questions, confusion, changes of mind and direction: everything.
We have found that many garden blogs highlight beauty, success, and abundance. Ours is more practical and down to earth. Our aim is simply to take good notes.
We are inquisitive...about many things and in many directions...so we share these inquiries and researches with anyone who may be interested. In that sense, Garden Unbound stretches the concept of a journal beyond its historical boundaries, perhaps moving it toward an altogether different register.
Our gentle readers would be best served if they thought things out for themselves and developed their own practices and came to their own conclusions based on their own reflections and unbiased observations: in everything and in all of life.
We have been gardening for only a short while, so you will find plenty of beginner ignorance, beginner problems, and beginner mistakes. We don't mind sharing our ignorance. Very little is original in what we do. We study as much as we can and value highly what others have done. We are glad they shared what they learned: How else can we be with each other?
We like to try things out and are not afraid to fail…being unbound, we wonder and experiment freely. We invite your comments and suggestions.
We have been gardening for only a short while, so you will find plenty of beginner ignorance, beginner problems, and beginner mistakes. We don't mind sharing our ignorance. Very little is original in what we do. We study as much as we can and value highly what others have done. We are glad they shared what they learned: How else can we be with each other?
We like to try things out and are not afraid to fail…being unbound, we wonder and experiment freely. We invite your comments and suggestions.
comments (1)
1. Birchbark left...
Friday, 30 January 2009 9:32 am
I just found this journal and like the sound of it. I put it in my favs.
and will come back again later. We have a foot of snow on the ground in
Ohio right now but can't help thinking spring is getting here slowly but
surely.