Sakura
Inspiration Anna Hartley Inspiration Anna Hartley

Sakura

We came for sakura, the Japanese cherry blossom season, awaiting the bud burst as I entered the beginning of my third trimester. The whole country waited in anticipation of the first blooms.

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Cut flowers
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Cut flowers

Yesterday I harvested our first calla lily. It marks a tipping point, the moment that our succession of flowers (both wild and cultivated) begin peeking their heads out of their buds.

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Permaculture
Gardening Anna Hartley Gardening Anna Hartley

Permaculture

Shortly after moving into our home, my husband and I enrolled in a permaculture design course. Over the course of sixteen weeks and various (detailed) assignments, we applied our learnings to our own particular corner of the earth, studying the sun and the wind, the waterways, the usage of the space, and the opportunities contained within it.

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Prototyping
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Prototyping

Physical design-build work always reminds me of the value of prototyping before building: from low-fi sketching to model building, to functional full-scale prototypes.

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Establishing a Garden
Gardening Anna Hartley Gardening Anna Hartley

Establishing a Garden

Establishing an edible garden is an act of optimism: that things will grow, that you will have time to tend it, that you’ll figure out exactly how to grow things that you have only a vague notion about.

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