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Feeble light meanders through furrows in
the community garden Under a deepening
cerulian canopy shadows and plants slowly
recede into the warmth of the evening s
edges Simmering tranquility is
punctuated with the hesitant songs of
nights arrival The chitter of the raccoon
near the compost bin, the chirr of a bat
swooping briefly, the nick of a twig broken,
the muting warble of a nighttird nesting
Today was clear and hot Plucking upon Ì
the mandolin of memory, I try recalling «
the last time we danced in the garden to W
» ♦ J IM « heat ol Phoebus^ tune Its been^H
awhile Summer has burst forth after an
interminable, thin and grey arpeggio of
drizzle Finally Tonight s garden pulses C
with warmth and wildness
Civilized activity this gardening But, in l
the shifting light and blurring boundaries
of a summer 's evening one can see the
thinness in the veneer of imposed order
Within the garden space our politely
planted rows commune with the
unfettered abandon m the thickets of the
Grove surrounding The line is thin
between carefully domesticated
straw berries and their rambunctious wild
cousins Between them is the common
genetic memory of wilderness Outside the
strictures of the garden s tidiness,
wilderness bursts forth, beckoning in the
twilight And, left to their own, our
well-mannered plantings will follow that
beckoning After a few generations the
domestics will revert to a stronger, more
self-reliant, coarser, mure adaptable plant
Less refined, yes Let a mound of potatoes
go for a while They do become less
’pretty"
Of course, this can be a scary thing for
the Calvinist mind There is a strain of
thought running through American
intellectual history that equates wilderness
with danger, evil and violence, an entity to
be conquered, suppressed or brought to
domestication This constrictive view is
well documented in Roderick Nash s
Wilderrie in 1
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Happily, the works of Thoreau, Emerson
and Whitman sang articulate and
uncompromising odes to the goodness of
wilderness experience
For me, the most articulate heir to
Thoreau s Walden is Gary Snyder's
r*-enUy published The Pr • ti< - !
Wild A gardener's toolshed is not
complete without a well-thumbed copy of
this book These practical and eloquent
essays are a tool to understanding
gardening and Thoreau s declaration. 'In
wildness is the preservation of the world "
If you've not read The i
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yet, 1 would recommend taking it along
while harvesting wild blackberries Pick a
cup of berries, find a sunny respite and
dive into the cooling currents of Snyder s
writing
The first chapter. T h e Etiquette of
Freedom", is worth it just for the title itself
Freedom is not license and there is protocol
in wildness Snyder examines the
etymologies of "nature" "wilderness" and
"wildness" in this chapter and shows just
how misunderstood those concepts are, in
contemporary society
Sitting her* m the garden I do a goodly
amount of weeding and civilizing of the
•wilderness tendencies in the pea patch
But then, just to be sure, there s always a
sacramental, unruly overgrown area All
g ard en s should have a wild spot
volum e of Gary Snyder
If you would like to become a
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growing your own vegetables, flowers, and
herbs, the volunteer -operated garden
welcomes new mem te r s Regularly
scheduled work parties are held at the
garden each Sunday morning from 9am to
10 am No experience, tools, or
horticultural enlightenment are required
garden s Sprout Queen Leslie Sroufe,
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