This spring at Willow Acre I’ve started noticing something interesting: some of the most valuable and fascinating things on the property are not necessarily the things I intentionally planted.
Brittlestem (inkcap) mushrooms erupted from last year’s wood chips after rain. The comfrey is feeding bees and building biomass faster than I expected. Even the “weeds” are beginning to tell me things about soil, moisture, and succession.
Permaculture changes the way you look at land. You stop asking:
“How do I control this?”
and start asking:
“What is this place trying to become?”
So I’m curious:
What’s the most unexpectedly useful, beautiful, edible, medicinal, ecological, or otherwise surprising thing growing on your property right now?
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Inkcap mushrooms volunteer on my aged orchard wood chips
The most unexpected thing was three cockle-bur plants. Mr Google says it is used in medicine though I will pass.
Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner
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