It turns out... We Can't Create Abundance

I’ve spent less time in the food forest than usual this summer. I’ve been learning new skills, absorbed in different work, and paying less attention than ever to what was happening in my own backyard. But a few evenings ago, after a 106-degree day, I stepped outside at dusk to see how the garden had weathered the latest heat wave. Grapes I hadn’t picked had shriveled into raisins on the vine. The ground beneath the nectarine tree was littered with fruit already beginning to rot, slowly being...