The process of induction, ongoing, has taken place over four years so far. It has been mainly through an informal listening process on my part, and I have been grateful to those including, occasionally, traditional owners, who have allowed me to hear them talking — whether that’s been at local landcare group meetings, participatory landcare workshops, during working bees, walks, or apparently idle conversations.
All of this listening has affected my vision: because of it I’ve come to see the land under my care and all that lives there differently. At first I was daunted by the multitude of names, Latin or otherwise, particularly of plants, and the certainties ...