I’m a relative newcomer to the world of Nature-noticing and Nature-worshipping. As a child, I didn’t pay much attention to the cherry blossoms arriving in spring or the arc of the sun’s trajectory on a midsummer’s day. Yet in my early thirties I became an organic food grower, and learning how to nurture plants from seed to harvest – and the right relationship with the ecosystems that make that possible – changed everything for me. Growing food has been the gateway through which I have uncovered how connected I am – we all are – to the natural world and its cycles and seasons and patterns.

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