I’m so glad you’re here! We are about to embark on a 6-month growing journey together. We are going to grow parallel gardens, many many miles apart from one another. We are going to succeed, and we are going to mess up. Most importantly, we are going to PRACTICE!

In our product/goal/profit-oriented world, it is already a revolutionary act to prioritize Practice. To me, to Practice is in opposition of the paradigm in which we use a Means for an End. I say there is no End. Only Means.

What does that way of thinking open up for us? It means that even if I don’t get to my desired destination, it’s still good that I tried, anyways. The goal wasn’t to make it somewhere in the end, it was to see what I could learn along the way. It means that I acknowledge that life is a long and continuous thing: people have been practicing before me, and will continue to practice after me. I can’t just use up resources and then die, I need to think about what those after me will need as well. I am a link in a long chain, and in my life I get to Practice what I want to bring into the new world that is born every day.

As I observe the world today, I am fearful that we are losing many Practices. A few centuries ago, seedkeeping was a common Practice that had been sustaining people for thousands of years but today, it’s become very uncommon for the average person to Practice it. The technologies that we have developed since the dawn of our species that sustain us are becoming consolidated in the hands of very few, malicious actors. I think it’s an act of resistance to pick up the Practice of Seedkeeping again, and to keep alive the hand-scale, non mechanized techniques that were the basis of our survival for all of time, and bring it into the newborn world of tomorrow.