I’ve been super curious about the spectrum of land regeneration, whether it is permaculture, syntropic agroforestry, the Miyawaki reforestation/ afforestation method, or many others. …

This week, I attended a Syntropic Agroforestry (SA) workshop at A Little Wild farm in Johor conducted by Namaste Messerschmidt who has been practising SA since he was 12 in Brazil, learning directly from Ernst Götsch, the godfather of SA. Over four days, we learnt the principles of SA which…

When I first moved to Singapore a little over a year ago, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of green spaces in this city-state. …

Today, I participated in a workshop by Forest School Singapore (FSS) to learn how to make our own fire without gas or liquid fuel, with just the material of the land (even when it’s raining) and how to keep the fire going. …

One of the things that I’m most excited about living in Singapore is discovering the different initiatives that connect people with the land on which we live. I feel very fortunate to live in an area with, not just one, but two community gardens that welcome my yet-to-be-proven green thumbs…

A year ago, I was sitting in my living room in Arlington, Virginia, reading with dread as the Malaysian government approved logging concessions on 150,000 hectares of indigenous land in Borneo. I wrote about it here: What is our relationship with nature? From Cairo to Colombia, what led me home to the Borneo rainforestveronicayow.medium.com A month later, I was reading a book that posed this vital question —…

Basking in the sun on a winter day, A strong breeze brings chill to the bones, Some things make you warm and tender, Some give you the chills, How is it possible to embrace both at the same time or at different times? The Earth beneath you, relentless, helping you to hold your ground. Feel the Water around you, pushing in the stream or through the cracks beneath the ice, finding its way, no matter what,

During the lockdown, my relationship with nature looks a little like this — figuring out the different types of trees and plants and how they change with the season, seeing fireflies light up entire trees like Christmas lights, listening to a symphony of American bullfrogs croak, finding fungi in every…