"As a lifelong sufferer of depression, it has taken me far too long to realize how much time spent in the garden is a boon to the rest of my life. After time spent in Toronto and Vancouver, I have recently returned to my hometown in Niagara. It has been one of the most profound joys of these last couple years to tend a modest garden according to permaculture principles, adding in more native plants every year, growing in ambition with every season (next year’s investment is a rain barrel and some bee and bat houses). It is remarkable how enlivening it has been to get to know and help the lives of the co-inhabitants of my home watershed flourish."
Photos: Shayne Stothart