3 July 2026 Coevolution: Teaching and Horticultural Experience
Humans on this beautiful planet coevolved with plants. It wasn’t that far back in history that horticultural skills were survival skills that everyone had to depend on. Human populations boomed as soon as they started to manipulate plant growth in the Agricultural Revolutions. This symbiosis is still as relevant today as it has always been, but we live in a very strange, disconnected society now. Many people are disconnected from the process of growing our food and living in the natural world. Plant knowledge didn’t always come from a classroom, it came from everyday life. Growing food in Nicaragua. I taught English teachers and I grew lush gardens in the Peace Corps. Digital photography has come a long way since then, 2009. The American public education system coevolved with plants, too. Summer breaks weren’t always for baseball practice and vacations to Disneyland. The school calendar was designed so that people could grow food in the summer growing season. The work of growing food i...
