Claire Stevenson-Blythe is an Urban Planner in the City of Toronto. Her interests are in community-driven and inclusive development, environmental sustainability, and the importance of policy in community change.
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Growing in the Quarantine: Urban Gardening, Alone and Together
While COVID19 was not the ecological crisis we had in mind, it has undoubtedly challenged us to consider alternatives to our ways of being and belonging. I will continue taking the advice of Kimmerer, planting and tending to my garden and being open to listening to what it has to say.
May 18, 2020