Gardening, Food, Environment, & Mutual Aid

Continuing to Learn

A narrow dirt path winds through a tangle of vegetation, some plants nearly shoulder high, full blooms of aster, black-eyed Susans, sowthistle and hyssop, goldenrod, fennel, and prairie turnip.

These are the weeds we consider too unruly for even our ditches or yards, the ones plowed over, manicured, or cast out, but it’s here I find the round bumbling bodies of bees, furry with pollen, weighing down blossoms and drunk on nectar.Emma Kaiser
Beauty and the Bees