Lessons From the Garden: Winter Garden

Lessons From the Garden: Winter Garden by Alanda Greene

I’m working at the kitchen table these days instead of upstairs at my desk. It’s winter and the house is cold, especially where I usually write.

This is my version of a seasonal migration, a tiny replica of the cyclic nomadic journeys that the indigenous peoples of the plains made. When winter’s freezing temperatures, wind, snow and ice conspired, they moved to a location that gave shelter from these forces.

It just makes sense, both out on the prairie and here in the house. The indigenous peoples moved closer to forested hillsides, out of the wind and with fuel nearby. I move to the warmth of the kitchen, as our firewood is gathered and stacked outside the door.

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