Tending my digital and actual gardens

I have decided to treat this weblog like a digital garden.  I recently learned about the concept. and that there is a whole kind of parallel internet world where users harness power of the web to notate, connect their thoughts and interests, and share as they go.  From what I understand, this is applied by mainly web developers and researchers, but I love this.

I am so inspired by this idea of maintaining little beds of interest that I can tend enthusiastically from time to time, and allow to rest or gently tend parallel.  

And in that spirit, I'll be posting about my garden, plant trials and studies, including herbal practices, plant materials and weaving, twining and dyes, working with fibers such as local wool, re-using and also designing new textiles, all alongside contemporary thoughts on suburban garden practices within this northern changing climate here in Anchorage.

So, today in the garden.  I finished weeding out chickweed and forget me nots from my sunniest garden bed and planted the Japanese indigo (Persicaria tinctoria), Scabiosa 'Black Knight' and Dyer's coreopsis Coreopsis tinctoria in amongst the self-seeded chamomile. 

Seemingly fallow beds, which actually contain tiny plants in relative to their size. 

What is digital gardening?

I first learned about the concept of digital gardening from this episode of off the grid podcast episode.

Escaping the Social Media Trance — Community + Agency with Elise Granata

I'll get into the weeds about digital gardening and what it means to me another time, but in a nutshell, for me it means approaching my interactions on the web as a creative, iterative, world-building process.  

We are all connected.

'til next time,
Oona