A Genesis Plot
What is it?
A "genesis plot" is a little piece of soil and dirt and water - a piece of backyard, a scrap of land along a fence or median, a pot on a balcony - where you nourish and protect a few native plants.
Nate Hagens, who invented the term in The Great Simplification podcast, describes it as working "in service of life underground": taking a little piece of the world and breathing more life into it, giving it better soil, more biodiversity, protection from heat and cold and storm and drought, and giving the birds and bees and bugs around you a little patch of native habitat to rest in.
The Great Simplification #110: What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism.
Why is it?
So that your little piece of the world is better able to weather climate change and pollution and overconsumption, to pass through the coming global climate crisis, and become a seed for future regrowth.
Climate change is real and escalating. The world is getting hotter, dryer, stormier, and wilder. Droughts are becoming more extreme, and storms, when they come, are stronger and more destructive. Native plants are experiencing climates far different than the ones they evolved in, and are dying from it, and the animals that depend on those native plants are dying with them.
But you can take a little piece of the world around you and protect it.
How do I do it?
Try the "whatever method" - take home a handful of dirt from a vacant lot or weedy field or somewhere plants are growing, mix it into the top inch of soil in a pot, water enough to keep the soil moist and see what grows.
About me
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