2021: Creating a Lexicon of Future

I is for Inclusion

Nature is inclusive, demanding that an ecosystem has a complexity of elements with which a sustainable future is formed. Everything serves a purpose and nothing is wasted.

As we reimagine and develop our communities as metabolic ecosystems, we must seek out and encourage the complexity required by that model. It is vital to retain the perennials as they provide the rootstock that feeds the complex biome needed to incubate the next generation, as it is from this, rather than a new seed, that the next year’s flowers and crops…