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5 Season Garden Plan
The Five Seasons Garden is a learning landscape designed to reveal life’s regenerative cycles, our place within them, and how we can participate more intentionally for the well-being of the land, the many beings with whom we share it, and ourselves.Each seasonal garden offers highly nutritious foods and medicinal plants that provide support for that time of year. Many are plants that naturally emerge in that season. Drawing from Classical Chinese Medicine and place-based Indigenous knowledge traditions, we also explore deeper correspondences: how a plant’s color, taste, growth pattern, ecological niche, and medicinal actions may help us understand its relationship and value to a season. When we recognize that our physiology, emotions, and dispositions change with the seasons and that plants have evolved qualities that help living beings meet these seasonal changes we begin to understand that the seasons move through us, not merely around us.We are, in every sense, part of the natural world. The elements live within us. Kinship is not a metaphor. Here, the garden becomes a place to witness these connections at work and, through our educational programs, to explore how they might guide meaningful changes in the ways we care for the land, ourselves, and one another.er.
The Five Seasons Garden is a learning landscape designed to reveal life’s regenerative cycles, our place within them, and how we can participate more intentionally for the well-being of the land, the many beings with whom we share it, and ourselves.Each seasonal garden offers highly nutritious foods and medicinal plants that provide support for that time of year. Many are plants that naturally emerge in that season. Drawing from Classical Chinese Medicine and place-based Indigenous knowledge traditions, we also explore deeper correspondences: how a plant’s color, taste, growth pattern, ecological niche, and medicinal actions may help us understand its relationship and value to a season. When we recognize that our physiology, emotions, and dispositions change with the seasons and that plants have evolved qualities that help living beings meet these seasonal changes we begin to understand that the seasons move through us, not merely around us.We are, in every sense, part of the natural world. The elements live within us. Kinship is not a metaphor. Here, the garden becomes a place to witness these connections at work and, through our educational programs, to explore how they might guide meaningful changes in the ways we care for the land, ourselves, and one another.er.