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The Martha's Vineyard Times Garden Notes: Getting our gardens ready It’s still a bit early, but hope springs eternal. Buds of hellebore Ivory Prince emerge through a blanket of fallen leaves. — Susan Safford Under February’s Snow Moon, our cold soil underlain with clay seems to be the last on the Island to lose its snow cover. However, even here, snowdrops are advancing, and the hellebores are covered with fat pink buds. A glance to the shrubbery and tree tops reveals brighter coloring in twigs, and noticeably fattening buds. Notorious March begins, month of expectations das...

The Laws of Settlements book available for free online! Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? This is the question that drove me to write The Laws of Settlements and continues to propel my research on landscape—a term that I use to describe the complex and continuous dialogue between people and non-human natural systems.  It was a question that I thought—and continue to believe—belongs to everybody: one whose answer is necessary to even attempt to engage the complex challenges that will face us for decades to come. As...