The text of this post was originally published on the website of UBC Botanical Garden. This past summer, as part…
The tomatoes between us (excerpt)
Last year, in the early days of the pandemic, I accidentally grew many more tomato seedlings than I could plant…
The art of propagation
The big news this year is that I am the Artist in Residence at UBC Botanical Garden. The (somewhat loose)…
Gardens are social media
A few years ago, the first full summer we lived in Sherbrooke, my husband and I built a wooden planter…
Archaeologies of urban landscape
Hinge Park, as if the past was present (Nicole Crawford, 2019) This past summer I taught a special topics course…
Landscapes of inattention
Two papers of mine recently appeared in academic journals. Both have been a long time coming to print, so maybe…
Climate change and the many solitudes of Canada
Last summer, my family and I moved from Sherbrooke to Vancouver. Sherbrooke is a city of 150,000 people, located in the…
What is landscape criticism and what can it do?
Last year I published an essay on the alternative news website, Rabble. After much thought and with more than a little…
Collective gardening as research
Last summer, my husband and I built a small garden-on-wheels: it was a large rectangular planter mounted on the wheel…
The work of gardening
For the first time in my life, I have my own garden. That is, my first garden larger than a…
Communicative Landscapes 