The Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot is celebrated by building a little temporary structure outside, and hanging out over the course of a week in this three-sided hut which, by definition, has a roof that you can see the stars through.
How do you find ways to connect with nature while you are at home?
We live in a middling-size city, in a smallish house, on an itty-bitty .11 acre lot. We have gardens in front and in back, but what grows best in your yards grows there without our involvement.
We were happy to see milkweed come up in our front yard, because it’s good for the butterflies. We harvest raspberries and wild onions?/chives? that grew wild before we got here. In just the five years we’ve lived here, a tree (we’re still trying to identify it) has grown as tall as our house.
Perhaps we are indulging our laziness, but watching nature do her thing has made us happy.
Sounds wonderful! “There’s no place like (a) home garden , be it floral or vegetable. The tree is a bonus, I think.
Although I was once an outside garden planner and worker, I am now indulging myself with a random window kitchen garden, Some are from previous plants which have left over sprouts or stalks that appear to still have signs of rooting; others such as the sprigs of ivy I (stole!) from the Presbyterian yard today, I like to put n clear glass holders in the window right over the sink and watch for roots and upper growth. I look at the glasses often and water as necessary. Some have stayed with me for many years: someday, I may plant them in soil. They will still be in the same sunny spot, however.