In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative. Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as prod

If we were to shift away from consumerism towards cultivation – from what one might call external to inner growth – it would have far-reaching consequences for our way of life and for the values underpinning our economy.