Introduction

Good afternoon on this crisp, clear day. Thanks for visiting and spending some time with my words.

My name is John Knox. I live with my family in Skagit County, WA where we have a big garden with a small house in it. It is also a place where the undeniably enchanting writer Tom Robbins described in Another Roadside Attraction:

“It is a landscape in a minor key. A sketchy panorama where objects, both organic and inorganic, lack well-defined edges and tend to melt together in a silver-green blur. Great islands of craggy rock arch abruptly out of the flats, and at sunrise and moonrise, these outcroppings are frequently tangled in mist. Eagles nest on the island crowns and blue herons flap through the veils from slough to slough. It is a poetic setting, one which suggests inner meanings and invisible connections.”

RIP Tom. He died a few days ago. It’s an entanglement of emotions because death is not the end. Anyway…

I will write about hopes and wants, crafts and techniques, plants and people, production and education. This is a daydream meandering through my skills to something with some utility. Hopefully, it can result in working together on some projects with you. I tend toward do-it-together where the result is a shared accomplishment.

Some of the first blogs will be about:

• food-oriented design

• techniques in seed orchard establishment

• small-scale nursery development

• agroforestry production

• references to publications

I’ll be on the lookout to find ways to connect veterans and agriculture too.

Cheers,

John