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Field Notes from the Allotment
On soil, patience, and the slow education of growing something you cannot hurry.
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March. Nothing is growing and everything is being decided. The allotment teaches a particular humility: you may do everything right and the frost will still take the lot, and your only recourse is to do everything right again, next year, with no guarantee whatsoever.
What follows is less an argument than an act of attention — the deliberate, slightly old-fashioned business of looking at one thing for longer than is strictly efficient.
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