We grow the traditional Three Sisters, corn, bean, and squash, on a small plot.  It’s lovely, and traditional, we get some awesome dried corn and beans from it.  And it feeds my imagination.
 
The Three Sisters are part of a fertile and beautiful corner of my inner world - a place - or time? - in which people grow good food on family or community farms while regenerating the land, using simple tools, but also with so much intelligence and knowledge that it’s gentle work, and leaves time for other endeavors.  ​

​Every year starts out with the Scrum Plan – a great project planning tool that helps you think through the Big Projects and all the steps to get them done.   We just got our 2025 plan done this week, mid-January.  The overall planning is collected in a spreadsheet (boring), but the fun part is writing all the specific tasks on sticky notes and hanging them up in a prominent place.  Whenever you want to work on something, you mosey over to the stickie board and select a stickie with what you’re going to do next.  When you’re done, the stickie moves over to the “Done” board, and by the end of the season, the stickie board is empty – or, nearly empty.  All the tasks are done!  More or less like that.  See two earlier blogs about scrumming: 2017 scrumming; 2024 scrumming.