The climate-resilient nature-entangled way to garden with Duncan Cocking

Planting guides and sow-what-when calendars are great and all, but what happens when the seasons don't play nice? When spring arrives earlier, frost hits later, or heatwaves burn your crops to a crisp? There's no controlling the weather, but with tools like phenology, you can make better predictions and grow more food!

Duncan Cocking (of Leaf, Root & Fruit [https://www.leafrootfruit.com.au/about/]) is an amazing gardener and educator from Kyneton in Southern Australia. He helps people tune into more-than-human patterns and cycles to build their own hyper-local and climate resilient gardening calendars, and has a wealth of wisdom about living more joyfully too.

In this convo:

Why spring is two weeks earlier this year

Duncan's early years immersed in nature and connected to country

Why he's not that interested in working hard

Mid-30s career change

Pattern recognition in the veggie patch

How to use phenology

Nature based indicators to tell you went to plant

The two most critical aspects of gardening!!!

Connection through failures