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Gardens are social media

A few years ago, the first full summer we lived in Sherbrooke, my husband and I built a wooden planter…

horticultural media

Archaeologies of urban landscape

Hinge Park, as if the past was present (Nicole Crawford, 2019)  This past summer I taught a special topics course…

archaeologies, urban landscapes

Landscapes of inattention

Two papers of mine recently appeared in academic journals. Both have been a long time coming to print, so maybe…

instagram, invasive species, media ecologies, urban landscapes

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…

climate change, indigenous sovereignty

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…

indigenous sovereignty

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…

horticultural media, social experiments

The work of gardening

For the first time in my life, I have my own garden. That is, my first garden larger than a…

politics of gardening

What does it mean to think critically about plants and landscape and why should we keep doing it?

I have been doing a kind of plant-focused landscape criticism for a number of years now. Plants are essential to human…

horticultural media, invasive species

On leaving Scotland

Life in Quebec is easier than life in Scotland, and therefore happier; it feels like home. I am not sorry we…

landscape

Reading urban plants for soil conditions

I have been helping out with a public arts initiative during Glasgow International (festival of visual arts). Soil City is…

horticultural media, social experiments

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@yourlupinesoryourlife

Seedlings in one of the production greenhouses at @ubcgarden, one of my new favorite places in Vancouver. There is no end to the interesting things happening there (though most of them quite small in scale). I wrote about it in a new blog post on the garden’s website (link in bio). #artofpropagation

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