Liana Pilar for Into the Wild (Patreon)

For the first time in my adult life I have a hobby other than photography that I devote time to everyday.  I wake, I drink coffee, I eat, I check on my plants.  Each day I watch for growth, check to see what needs watered, what needs light, what need moved to a larger container.  For all of my love of nature, I've understood so little of a plants life.  Now as I move through the forest I notice things I've previously missed: the first flowers of a tree pushing out from the nodes, the leaves that follow, how quickly it all grows.

• I'm a steward of this land now.  It is the place I create along with others, a place I forage for and grow much of my food.  I have so much to learn, and I am excited by each new thing I find.  Four months I have been here, and already I feel like the forest is educating me.  It is not just a place I visit now, but a place that I live in.
  
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