Bringing stems indoors this time of year can offer up a burst of colour and a renewed love for winter. The monochromatic pallet this time of year is wonderfully brought alive and a sense of hope renewed, as tightly packed buds unravel. Coaxed out with warm water and curious energy from all eyes as they… [Read More]
Why ‘On the Edge’?
The edge is where we work as landscapers and educators. At Helping Nature Heal, we engage in healing and restoring the edges between human activity and our ecosystems. These edges are often challenging, but we see them as places of growth and opportunity: the opportunity to plant a tree that will capture carbon, to reintroduce… [Read More]
Black Out Speak Out
This week you may have noticed that some of your favourite websites were darkened, or that Facebook friends had changed their profile pictures to read Black Out Speak Out. This initiative is fueled by grave concern for the sweeping changes to environmental law proposed by the federal government’s omnibus bill, C-38. Included in this bill… [Read More]
Talking to Plants – May 2013
Dear Friends, Spring is in full swing all around me, inciting my willing and eager involvement with the caretaking of the land and soil and plants. The growing plants channel amazing joy with their life force, beauty and proliferation. I take time to resonate with that joy. I take time to ask them how I… [Read More]
Do you access the ‘healing power of nature’?
What do I mean… by the healing power of nature? I mean to refer to the way in which Nature ministers to our minds, all more or less diseased by the rush and racket of civilization, and helps to steady and enrich our lives. My first point is that there are deeply-rooted, old established, far-reaching… [Read More]
Mayflowers
Every Spring, the arrival of mayflowers sends me back to childhood. Time collapses and I see that girl, sitting with her brother in a tree lot, snacking on tea berries, collecting big clutches of mayflowers for our mother or for my grade one teacher, who happened to be named Daisy. The girl is somewhere between… [Read More]