another good one to just kinda shift the composition of plants is to just intentionally step on the plants you want less of when you walk around. it might not get rid of them, but hey, it's low effort so why not! this is the kind of nudging one can often do without any planning or equipment or even without allocating extra.time for it. it can become a habit.

(though my problem here is that the only plants I really want to deter or get rid of are the ones that are painful to step on barefoot 😂)

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these two are examples of how to put the principles "the problem is the solution" and "make the least change for maximum effect" into praxis.

my disabilities and poverty are problems — but turns out in a lot of ways, less really is more in the garden! Often, the less we interfere in nature, the better it thrives. Or rather, when we do some gentle, nudging caring and tending of the land and its nonhuman inhabitants as opposed to trying to dictate how everything has to go (like monocultures).

I also share my thoughts and experiences so that the people who need it most (poor and disabled) can have at least the resource of knowledge. Which I can only do by actually living it and not by trying to give advice to people whose lives are just different from mine.

This is also "least change for maximum effect" because giving resources to the poor and disabled has a bigger effect on changing the world than just catering to the (mostly, temporarily) abled middle classes. Sure I wish I could give more, so much more! I will, at some point. But until then I do what I can.

(forest) gardening examples of "least change" are for example to observe what is already growing and to use that! there are very few (if any) plants that really have no uses. You'd be surprised how many "weeds" are edible and medicinal!

then plant something that wants to grow in that (micro-)climate and soil, instead of relying on lots of changes like fertilisets, irrigation, tilling etc.

work with the natural succession of ecosystems (most places want to grow forests, so let them!) instead of resetting the ecosystem back to bare earth all the time. sure there are exceptions but for me, forest gardens/food forests are an example of the "least change" principle, because after planting your trees, bushes and perennials, you won't have to do that much besides harvesting! (or so I hear, I haven't had the chance to try that out yet, but I'm actively planning to turn most of this garden into a food forest)

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