Raspberry revolution: Recent Episodes
Patrick Delvecchio
Inspired by nature I foresee a fruitful future. With their prolific, wild vitality, raspberries are my keystone metaphor. I am hoping to speak scientifically about gardening but also connect with the spiritual side of growing plants and community. I’m just an ordinary queer creative human who loves plants. The plants are screaming “save the humans!”
Mythic astrological forecast for cancer season 2021. Affirmations and mystical metaphor that are the keystones for thriving this cancer season.
The how to basics of growing strawberries. Their history, junebearing vs everbearing, and wisdom I have glwaned from the strawberry spirits.
I go through the basics of growing raspberries and blackberries and nerd out on strategies to produce a huge fruitful crop.
I have been thinning out the forest to allow more sunlight for berries and fruit trees. The collective mind of humanity has became a dark forest of doubt, doom, and depression. The eclipse is a perfect time to cut away the gnarly deadwood of the collective culture and see the doorway opening in the sky above. I have named this metaphorical meadow in the dark forest of the collective the Etherglade.
Astrological affirmation forecast for Gemini Season. I talk about the astrology of the next month and the affirmations I glean from them.
The zodiac is traditionally divided into half masculine half feminine signs. This is an oversimplification and I talk about the complicated generplay within the zodiac. How the signs of Taurus Libra and Scorpio are a cocollaboration of masculine and feminine energies and what they teach us.
Astrological affirmations and forecast for taurus season 2021. I go through the major transits and what wisdom I glean from them.
Affirmations to inspire, embolden, and empower us inspired by the story the stars are telling this Aries season.
One year ago I planted a spirit orchard, fruit trees, bushes, flowers and herbe planted to create a beautiful space for bounty and contemplation. While a unique freemagined idea I have learned I was tapping into something ancient and global. I discuss this journey of discovery and cocreation with spirit as the trees awaken in spring. I also share the wisdom the trees are whispering to me for 2021 and beyond.
The snow has created a blank canvas to imagine new gardens. I discuss how I incorporate magic and spirit into the design of my garden to deepen my souls connection to place. Specifically the ancient tradition of leaving wild space for fairies and how it creates a resilient ecosystem.
In 2012 hurricane Sandy uprooted my life in the connecticut wetlands called wolf swamp. I reflect on the different feeling of living in a swamp covered over by subrubia and how the tempest took everything from me but allowed me to grow into a new more resilient version of myself.
Winter may seem like a time of death for gardens and food forests but it is actually a time filled with magic. I describe how I stay motivated in the winter months to garden and how the garden continues to be a source of magic and life all winter long.